A DAINTY DISH

Emergency cookbook blip today. While chef sister A2 was staying we looked through some of my old cookery books and Davis Dainty Dishes dropped out of one. It's a small volume produced by the Davis Gelatine Company with editions from 1922 to 1936, and this is the revised edition of 1937 - in full colour for the princely sum of two shillings. Its raison d'être seems to be that there is no food under the sun that can't be improved by being moulded, set in gelatine and garnished with sprigs of parsley or cherries. A2 and I were baffled by this illustration, the frontispiece, and came up with all sorts of disgusting and immature suggestions about what was actually being moulded in this dainty dish, but we eventually concluded that it's a Macaroni and Sausage Shape, recipe a few pages further into the book. I think I'll give it a miss, thank you.