I’m still working on the Gracie Fields chapter for my forthcoming Dead Movie Stars Taught Me to Cook book and in that, I mention this pamphlet from 1957 that contains loads of Gracie’s fave recipes
With my head full of Gracie, I was thrilled to find a little pot of her potted shrimp when I was rummaging around in the freezer last week.
It was so delicious, and I love Gracie so much that I decided she should go into the Top 100. Her Toad in the Hole would have been a contender too for sure. I think Gracie was a good cook. Here’s my version of her T.I.T.H.
Potted shrimp seems a very old skool British thing, but it is so easy to do, and it’s so fabulous on toast or mixed through some pasta that I highly recommend rustling some up. You need the teeny tiny brown shrimp, not what my chums in the USA would call shrimp which are the big ‘uns.
This was a brilliant working from home lunch, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
If you can lay your hands on some tiddlers, I say, shrimp it up with Our Gracie!
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