Zurich Legacy Kitchen Cookbook - Book - Page 61
L e g ac y K it c hen
Melanie
Booth
When I was a child, I used to love visiting
process the leftover meat. Funnily enough,
my Grandma Marjorie in Margate – she
years later, in the 1970s, my mum became
always brought me and my brother down
a vegetarian, but she improvised, and
to the arcades, playing on the 2p machines,
followed the same recipe, replacing the
and splashing in the water on the beach.
meat with lentils.
The best bit was when we’d head to a lovely
When the next generation came
sea parlour, on the front, and she would buy
around, I got the recipe from my mum
us these huge knickerbocker glories!
– making the meat version for when my
When
it
came
to
cooking,
my
mum's not there, and lentils when she was,
grandmother wasn't so adventurous, but
to keep her fed. I cook these regularly, and
there were several traditional meals that
the whole family loves them.
she made, beautifully well. My mother’s
What my grandmother and my mother
favourite recipe of hers was her Shepherds
instilled in me was a true love of food and
(or cottage pie), that she would always
cooking. This actually led me to pursuing
make from the meat leftover from a Sunday
this love as a career, first becoming a chef,
roast (whether that was beef, or lamb). She
and then a food technology teacher, as I
used to use an old-fashioned mincer, to
am today.
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