Recipes

Recipes for food that can be served at book club meetings for 

My Family and Other Animals

He loved being fed, and would squat regally in the sun while we held out bits of lettuce, dandelions, or grapes for him.

I wondered which was the nearest cottage where I could get something to eat.  I stood kicking up puffs of fine white dust from the road as I considered this problem.  If I went to see Leonora, who undoubtedly lives the nearest, she would give me figs and bread, but she would also insist on giving me the latest bulletin on her daughter's state of health.

Acting on the information received, Mother mentioned the matter to Margo in a slightly less bloodcurdling manner than Spiro's and suggested that the young Turk be brought up to tea.  

Delighted, Margo went off to fetch him, while Mother hastily made a cake and some scones, and warned the rest of us to be on our best behaviour. 

  ... in the interval he went out and came back with some of that horrible, sickly Turkish Delight, and before long we were all covered with white sugar, and I had a dreadful thirst.