FONDLY-RECALLED GENTLE introduction to flans with the primary-school teacher charm of Delia, who sometimes went all exotic on us (spaghetti) but always came good in the end.
There’s no denying it: the emergence of this article undoubtedly prompted Her Maj to give Delia a gong in today’s Birthday Honours List. Such power you yield… 🙂
There was a time when every home in Britain had a copy of her book with the photo of Delia holding an egg on the front cover. There was a great recipe for pancakes in it.
My Mum had the set of 3 books for years & passed them on to my Sister when she got a single updated volume.
Delia did an energy saving information film in the 1970s, one of a series using the Save It slogan. My primary school had the Save It stickers around well into the 1980s.
Chris O
June 13, 2009 at 4:55 pm
There’s no denying it: the emergence of this article undoubtedly prompted Her Maj to give Delia a gong in today’s Birthday Honours List. Such power you yield… 🙂
shakira
August 22, 2010 at 6:42 am
How exactly is spaghetti exotic? You mean she never knew what falafel and tabouli and other actual good food is?
Richard Davies
October 25, 2010 at 6:00 pm
One of my Aunts still thinks spaghetti is slightly off-beat food.
When one of my cousins had to move back home for a time they complained about how bland my Aunt’s cooking was after years of doing their own.
Great Bustard
October 25, 2010 at 11:01 pm
There was a time when every home in Britain had a copy of her book with the photo of Delia holding an egg on the front cover. There was a great recipe for pancakes in it.
Richardpd
September 3, 2023 at 10:00 pm
My Mum had the set of 3 books for years & passed them on to my Sister when she got a single updated volume.
Delia did an energy saving information film in the 1970s, one of a series using the Save It slogan. My primary school had the Save It stickers around well into the 1980s.