Recipes

Recipes for food that can be served at book club meetings for Judgement in Stone.

... he sat at the kitchen table eating chicken salad and reading the memoirs of a mystic who had lived in a Poona ashram for thirty years without speaking a word.

She had her pleasures, eating the chocolate she loved and which made her grow stout, ironing,  cleaning silver and brass, augmenting the family income by knitting for her neighbours.

Eunice brought him nice bits of fish and made him steak and kidney pudding.

"You could get thirty-five pounds a week and all found.  I've always said you were wasted in that shop."

Eunice munched her Cadbury's filled block, "I don't know," she said, a favorite response.

Having eaten the last of the Bounty bar she had brought herself in Liverpool Street, she alighted from the train, no longer nervous now that there was nothing to be deciphered.

I hope you like stuffed vine leaves.  My stepmother's doing them for tonight.

After hymns and some spontaneous confessing - almost as good as television, this bit - the brethren had tea and biscuits and watched films about black or brown Epiphany People struggling in remote places (in partibus infidelium, as it were) 

or delivering the Epistle of Balthasar to famine-stricken persons to weak to resist.

At Lowfield Hall Jacqueline had made four Christmas puddings, one of which would be sent to the Caswalls, who couldn't face the upheaval of bringing two infants to Greeving for the holiday.

Five minutes later she was at the Hall, inside the Hall, for she had slipped in her new, thoroughly insane way through the gun room to surprise Eunice as she sat devouring egg and chips and lemon cheesecake at the kitchen table.