Time out - and a retro recipe
I am very clever. Where any decent person would pull one muscle somewhere like they’re little finger and type round it, I pulled two whacking great neck muscles yesterday. My head hurts; my neck hurts; my ears hurt; my throat hurts. Please feel free to make deeply sympathetic noises in my direction.
In four days time I shall frolic like a lamb. Today it hurts to do too much of anything. Since ‘anything’ includes reading, sitting at the computer or watching TV, my day has been spent doing little bits of things and lying down contemplatively. I didn’t dare ring anyone lest that hurt, too, and lest I complained at them.
What this means is that some of this post will be recipes from my grandmother, and all the posts until my neck feels less nauseating will be extracts of things. This is the most typing I can manage, and even this is not easy, in other words. So please accept my apologies and I’ll try to find interesting excerpts for you while my muscles heal then learn flexibility again.
The special extra for tonight is me giving you a recipe that Grandma actually annotated. It’s nice to know that she particularly liked Lemon Puff Custard. She must have made it often, given that the baking dish is left out of the instructions.
Lemon Puff Custard
Cream 1 tablespoon butter with ½ cup sugar, add yolks of 2 eggs, grated rind and juice of one lemon, 2 tablespoons flour and 1 cup milk. Fold in stiffly beaten whites of eggs and bake in moderate oven in dish of water for 30 to 35 minutes. (Delicious)
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