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Thursday 02 February 2006
Nanny's delicacies: Friday's food quotation
We used the house in Rutland Gate only occasionally for the London season. Most of the time it was either let or stood unoccupied; then, very, very rarely, one or two of us were allowed to stay for a few days with Nanny in the Mews, a tiny flat, formerly chauffeur's quarters at the back of the house over the garage. Life in the Mews had the quality of camping out. There was no cook there, so Nanny did the cooking, and she sometimes let us help her prepare unfamiliar delicacies whose recipes she dug up somewhere out of her memory: prune whip, tripe and onions, bread pudding.
1978 Jessica Mitford, Hons and rebels (Quartet Books) p. 42