TITLE: The Pony Club
NUMBER: Series 3, Episode 2
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: September 9, 1998
SETTINGS: The ladies cook for “lots of little children” who belong to a Pony Club in the Cotswolds [a rural area in central England, named for the Cotswold Hills.]
The Cotswolds.
[While the Cotswolds span several counties,] this Pony Club is located in Gloucestershire. Continue reading
TITLE: Christmas
NUMBER: Series 2, Special
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: December 24, 1997
SETTINGS: The ladies cook a Christmas dinner for the choir of the Pilgrim’s School, a boarding school providing boy singers for the Winchester Cathedral in Hampshire.
Winchester Cathedral.
They are greeted by “Dr. Rees,” an educator who has a North American accent. Continue reading
[A preliminary note: While watching the opening credits of this episode, my girlfriend said, “Oh, I never realized before they’re having a little conversation during this song.” She’s cute. – WK]
TITLE: Food in the Wild
NUMBER: Series 1, Episode 6
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: November 13, 1996
SETTINGS: The Hawkhirst Camp of the British Boy Scouts Association, Kielder Forest, Northumberland. The ladies go fishing for their field trip.
DISHES: Jennifer does a “shooter’s sandwich” of beef and mushrooms in a hollowed-out bread loaf. (She uses expensive steak to make it, but says it’s of better value than store-bought sandwiches, “which can cost two to three pounds and are filthy.”)
“Filthy.”
[In Cooking with the Two Fat Ladies, she says this recipe comes from the book of an interesting Nineteenth-Century person called Thomas Earle Welby.]
The late Right Reverend Thomas Earle Welby.
[UPDATE: It has come to my attention that there were actually two Thomas Earle Welbys – well, actually, there were three if you count the late Right Reverend’s son Arthur Thomas Earle Welby. Unfortunately, the T.Earle Welby who contributed this week’s sandwich recipe was apparently a later person unrelated to the earlier Welby dynasty.
[The later Welby was a journalist, critic and columnist who in 1932 published a book called The Dinner Knell: Elegy in an English Dining-Room. I couldn’t find a picture of him, but you may learn more about him here. Sounds an interesting person.]
In the second segment, she makes a frittata with vegetables (and a hell of a lot of butter). Continue reading
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