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"Jez" |
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06 Aug 2004 06:17:55 PM |
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OT:Etta keeps 'royal' recipe secret |
Aww..sweet !!!
Etta keeps 'royal' recipe secret
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/3541124.stm
A Welsh grandmother is refusing to hand over her secret recipe for
fruitcake, despite tickling royal tastebuds.
After sampling Etta Richardson's cooking on a recent visit to her home
village in Carmarthenshire Prince Charles put in an order for eight of them.
The cakes, which Mrs Richardson usually only bakes at Christmas, were
sent by courier to Highgrove.
But the 74-year-old has refused to divulge her recipe, handed down from
her mother, to her royal customer.
"My mother used to make it, so it's about 50 years old," she said.
Mrs Richardson has now billed Prince Charles £3.99 for each cake plus
package and posting.
Prince Charles visited Llansteffan as part of his annual summer tour of
Wales last month.
Later, opening this year's Royal Welsh Show at Llanelwedd, the prince
urged a return to "old fashioned cooking" lessons in schools.
Mrs Richardson said: "Prince Charles was in the village, he was coming
round and we have a few stalls round the square.
"He is such a nice man and down to earth person. He spoke to us all.
"I usually only make the cake at Christmas but I made it for the visit
because it makes the table look nice."
He asked one of his aides to buy a cake so he could have a few slices on
the royal helicopter as he continued his Welsh tour.
'Very proud'
Then a chef from his kitchens phoned and placed an order for eight.
They were sent to the prince last week.
Mrs Richardson, whose son Richard and daughter-in-law Paula run a bakery
business, said she was 'very proud' that they had met with such approval.
"I could not believe it - it was very exciting," she added.
"It's a cake that you start off with one slice and you need another one,
it's a cake that you can eat a lot of."
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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| User: "Gregory Gadow" |
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| Title: Re: OT:Etta keeps 'royal' recipe secret |
09 Aug 2004 08:47:10 AM |
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Jez wrote:
Aww..sweet !!!
Etta keeps 'royal' recipe secret
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/3541124.stm
Finally! Now I know what to do with the Christmas fruitcake I get every year. I
knew there *had* to be someone on this planet who ate the stuff!
--
Gregory Gadow
techbear@serv.net
http://www.serv.net/~techbear
"[W]e have never held that moral disapproval, without any other asserted
state interest, is a sufficient rationale under the Equal Protection
Clause to justify a law that discriminates among groups of persons."
- Sandra Day O`Conner, _Lawrence v Texas_
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=000&invol=02-102
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