The Thrifty Cookbook E-Book

Ryland Peters & Small

• Herausgeber: Ryland Peters & Small
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Seitenzahl: 98

Beschreibung

A collection of over 60 quick and delicious recipes to feed households on a budget. A busy family household is often short on time and money. The weekly food shop can be a stressful time when you are wondering how you can feed your family good, honest food without exceeding the weekly budget. Living on a budget, or trying to reduce your outgoings, doesn't have to mean foregoing cooking and eating good food though.  Thrifty tips will guide you through how to make the most of your ingredients and create wonderful family food for all mealtimes. Enjoy some budget breakfasts such as Baked Eggs or Corned Beef Hash before moving on to some purse-friendly soups and salads for lunch. The main meal of the day no longer needs to empty the bank, so instead delve in to some quick and easy dishes such as Thai Salmon Fish Cakes or Quick Vegetable Curry. Treats don't have to be ignored in favour of saving pennies either – whip up some quick treats such as Iced Summer Berries with Hot White Chocolate Sauce or Banana Fritters. The Thrifty Cookbook has all the inspiration you need to produce fantastic food, in super quick time, for the whole family even when you've had to tighten the household purse strings.

Leseprobe

Introduction to The Dictionary of Posh: Incorporating the Fall and Rise of the Pails-Hurtingseaux Family

Estuary English is a powerful thing. In a few short years it has pretty well managed to drive from our shores the old cut-glass enunciation of English so beloved of royalty, antique BBC presenters and 50’s films stars.

The good news is that the old tongue is still there, just, hanging on.

The Dictionary of Posh: Incorporating the Fall and Rise of the Pails-Hurtingseaux Family serves as an essential guide to the (ab)use of many English words by the decidedly up-market, and the resultant – and endangered – language they speak: Posh.

Now you can learn Posh too (or polish it up if you’re a native speaker) and be part of its preservation!

The book comes in the form of a dictionary, each word listed being genuine English and of familiar spelling to the average reader. But when translated into Posh these words take on very different meanings, often with side-splitting consequences, so learning Posh is really marvellous fun.

To assist the learner in rapid mastery of the language, and to ensure correct understanding and future usage, helpful examples of the various words in the dictionary are given in context, and students will be talking Posh in no TAME at all. Improvement in social standing and employment prospects will normally follow quite speedily.

These helpful examples are revealed through the dictionary in The Fall and Rise of the Pails-Hurtingseaux Family, the sorry saga of the lives of the extended family of Viscount Pails-Hurtingseaux, whose story of riches, ruin and redemption this book really is.

Thus, it may not be too lofty a premiss to claim that this volume constitutes a lexiconic novel; and it may equally safely be said, dear reader, that this particular genre has never before been attempted.

Acknowledgement

I am indebted to Keith Hancock of Falmouth for the initial stimulation for this tome and for his contribution of the word EARS, which, being translated into Posh, means ‘yes’. Try it.

Copyright © Hugh Kellett (text) 2019

Copyright © Oliver Preston (illustrations) 2019

First published in the UK in 2019 by

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To MAY WAIF

The Setting for the Fall and Rise of the Pails-Hurtingseaux Family

The Fall and Rise of the Pails-Hurtingseaux Family, the story that runs through this dictionary, is set mainly in Hurtingseaux Castle, a crumbly Norman keep, seat of the current Viscount, Lord Pails-Hurtingseaux. Other locations are the fashionable venues and seasonal watering holes of the well-heeled, mainly in London and the Home Counties.

The Main Cast

Lord Pails-Hurtingseaux

Viscount and owner of Hurtingseaux Castle

Lady Pails-Hurtingseaux

His lady wife

Mr Harry Flesh-Herries

Lady P-H’s brother

Mrs Daphne Flesh-Herries

His wife

Archie MacSporranhead

A distant relative of Lord P-H

Spraint

Lord P-H’s butler

Mrs Sloppetty

The cook

Snitcher

The tenant farmer, gamekeeper and odd job man

Poppy

Lady P-H’s lady’s maid

Inspector Moleskin

The local constabulary

The Dictionary of Posh:Incorporating the Fall and Rise of the Pails-Hurtingseaux Family

NOTE: to simplify learning, each word of Posh is introduced individually in alphabetical order; after its introduction it is then CAPITALISED and replaces the conventional English word in the ensuing pages, so familiarity with the language builds at a gradual pace, and by the end total fluency will be achieved.

The student reader is encouraged to find a private place and pronounce the words of Posh out loud, perhaps in front of a mirror. It is good form in this respect for gentlemen students to enunciate Posh with their mouths held as tightly shut as possible and talk, with a slightly pained look, through their teeth (see HRH Prince Charles for correct style and nuancing of diction). For ladies, a more open-mouthed braying technique is to be encouraged, which adds considerable tone and authenticity to the end result.

A

ACE: (Noun)

Meaning: The state attained by water at 0 degrees centigrade

Example: The whole family had gathered in the great hall of Hurtingseaux Castle and Lady Pails-Hurtingseaux told Spraint the butler, and not for the first time, that she desired four cubes of ACE in her lunchtime G&T

ACORN: (Noun)

Meaning: In technology, a graphic representation

Example: Rupert, Lord Pails-Hurtingseaux’s son and heir, had grappled for years with his new-fangled lap top but could not understand what this particular desktop ACORN meant

ADA: (Noun)

Meaning: A sea bird whose plumage is much revered for its softness

Example: Bunty, the daughter of Harry and Daphne Flesh-Herries, returned from hunting and jumped straight into her bed whose duvet was made of the finest ADA down (See also BARD, DARK, GRICE, ISLE, PALAVER, SNAPE, SWORN)

AERO*: (Noun)

Meaning: A projectile

Example:Lord Pails-Hurtingseaux was asking himself what exactly was meant by the expression “slings and AEROS of outrageous fortune”

AIDS: (Noun)

Meaning: A date in March unlucky for Julius Caesar

Example: Rupert could remember his latin teacher batting on about the AIDS of March but had no idea at all what he meant

AIL: (Noun)

Meaning 1: A piece of land surrounded by water

Example: The whole family agreed that the only saving grace of the AIL of Wight was Cowes week

Meaning 2: The walkway in the middle of a church

Example: Lord P-H was sadly not convinced that Rupert would ever walk down the AIL

AIL: (Verb)

Meaning: I will

Example: “Well AIL be blowed!” said Lord P-H on hearing from Spraint that the stock market had got a little volatile

AIM: (Verb)

Meaning: I exist

Example: “AIM really feeling a little under the weather today,” said Lady P-H to her maid Poppy

AIR: (Exclamation)

Meaning: An expression of surprise or mild shock

Example: “AIR!” exclaimed Priscilla , the P-H’s daughter, on being told that Daphne F-H, her rather loud aunt (on her mother’s side) had already been accepted as a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron

AIR: (Noun)

Meaning: An organ

Example: Harry F-H, Lady P-H’s brother, thought it essential to always keep an AIR to the ground

AIR MAIL: (Noun)

Meaning: A consumer loyalty award

Example: Daphne F-H, Lady P-H’s sister-in-law, said only very common people would ever think of actually using their AIR MAILS

ALLIANCE: (Noun)

Meaning: A regular amount of money paid into one’s bank

Example: Not for the first time, Lord P-H was wondering if he could afford to continue paying Rupert’s rather hefty monthly ALLIANCE

ANY: (Proper noun, name)

Meaning: Girl’s name as in Oakley

ARDOUR: (Noun)

Meaning: Part of a cow’s milk producing apparatus

Example: Rupert was saying that Snitcher (the tenant farmer) was rubbing a cow’s ARDOUR in a most peculiar way (See also CAR, MEMORIES)

ARE: (Noun)

Meaning: Sixty minutes

ARSE: (Pronoun)

Meaning: A reference to more than one person as the object of a verb or preposition

Example: “Forgive ARSE our trespasses…”

ARTILY: (Adverb)

Meaning: Totally

Example: Lady P-H was ARTILY convinced that it was the influx of unwashed Europeans that had brought on her latest illness

ASHLEY: (Adverb)

Meaning: In fact

Example: Priscilla’s fav film was Love ASHLEY

AUDLEY: (Adverb)

Meaning: Strangely

Example: Bunty was thinking that her cousin Rupert had begun to behave really rather AUDLEY whenever she turned up at Hurtingseaux in her body-hugging riding gear (See also ORDERLY)

AUKS: (Noun)

Meaning: A large bovine creature

Example: Rupert had asked Mrs Sloppetty the cook to prepare nice AUKS tongue sandwiches for next Saturday’s shoot

AVIARY: (Noun)

Meaning: Tusk material

Example: Lord P-H had a world class display of AVIARY in the Great Hall of the castle

AWFUL: (Noun)

Meaning: Edible animal innards

Example: Priscilla watched Mrs Sloppetty who was busily picking over her weekly supply of AWFUL

AWN: (Preposition)

Meaning: Above

Example:Rupert was lying AWN his bed reading the Beano

B

BABEL*: (Noun)

Meaning: A holy book

Example: Lady P-H always set the dogs AWN those ghastly Jehovah’s Witnesses and other BABEL bashers

BAIL: (Noun)

Meaning: A black bodily fluid

Example: Lady P-H put her sombre mood that day down to a problem with her BAIL duct

BAIT: (Noun)

Meaning: A rapid meal

Example: The whole party slipped out of the Chelsea Flower Show for a quick BAIT and a bottle of champers

BAHT: (Noun)

Meaning: A posterior

Example: Harry F-H had always much admired Poppy’s BAHT (See also BALM, BOUGHT)

BAIRN: (Verb)

Meaning: To outlaw

Example: Lady P-H thought it would be best to BAIRN all foreigners, particularly if they couldn’t speak English (See also BEN)

BAKE: (Noun)

Meaning: A form of two-wheeled transport

Example: Rupert had always fancied his cousin Bunty but acknowledged she might ASHLEY be a bit of a BAKE

BALM: (Noun)

Meaning: A posterior

Example: Bunty was looking over her shoulder in the mirror and wondered if her new jodhpurs made her BALM look too big (See also BOUGHT)

BARBEL: (Noun)

Meaning: A tiny pocket of air in a liquid

Example: Bunty was always particularly frisky after a nice chilled bottle of BARBELS

BARD: (Noun)

Meaning 1: A flying target

Example: Lord P-H was asking Snitcher how many BARDS were being put down this year (See also DARK, GRICE, ISLE, PALAVER, SNAPE, SWORN)

Meaning 2: The early stage of a flower

Example: Priscilla was in the garden sniffing the rose BARDS and writing a short poem to them

BARED: (Noun)

Meaning: A sleeping place

Example: It was midday and Rupert was thinking it was possibly time to get out of BARED (See also SEC)

It was midday and Rupert was thinking it was possibly time to get out of BARED

BARELY: (Noun)

Meaning: An abdominal protrusion

Example: Godfrey, Harry F-H's sporty son, was inspecting his figure in the mirror and grumbling to himself about the arrival of a detectable beer BARELY

BARK: (Noun)

Meaning: Responsibility

Example: Harry F-H was in absolutely no doubt that the BARK stopped with other people

BARKER: (Noun)

Meaning: An item of headgear

Example:Lady P-H abominated all foreigners, particularly Arabs, and especially those in BARKERS

BARKS: (Proper noun, place name)

Meaning: A county north of London, home to High Wycombe and Milton Keynes. Never to be confused with Berks

BARN: (Noun)

Meaning: A small loaf (See also BEAGLE, BEGET, SCORN)

BARNEY: (Noun)

Meaning: A small animal with big AIRS

Example: Priscilla just adored playing with her BARNEY (See also RAREBIT)

BART: (Conjunction)

Meaning: Then again, alternatively

Example: Bunty liked Moët BART loved Bolly, which had more BARBELS

BARTER: (Noun)

Meaning: A spread made of churned cream

Example: People always said that BARTER wouldn’t melt in Poppy’s mouth

BARTON: (Noun)

Meaning: A fastening device

Example: Rupert could never have been accused of having his finger AWN the BARTON (See also PAUPER)

BARTOK: (Noun)

Meaning: Half of a BALM

Example: Harry F-H accidentally brushed his hand against Poppy’s left BARTOK

BASIN: (Noun)

Meaning: A big shaggy bovine

Example: Lord P-H had once nearly been shat AWN by a BASIN when visiting his cousin at Longleat

BATH: (Noun)

Meaning: The process of coming into this world

Example: Lord P-H was philosophical enough to recognise that his wealth was really all down to an accident of BATH

BAUBLE: (Noun)

Meaning: A pompom

Example: Priscilla’s new grunge look involved her wearing a woolly hat with a BAUBLE AWN the top