@bookstodon This is fun - a writer decides to recreate the meal at the start of Strong Poison. There are references to a number of her books, no direct spoilers but be aware if you haven’d read the series and prefer to know nothing going in, via The Paris Review | ‘Sayers transcended her genre, so I hoped she would also transcend her satirical murder menu and that together we would make a good meal. I set out to make the four-course dinner from Strong Poison, staying true to the letter of the recipes while making adjustments to suit my palate. The soup “set to a clear jelly” sounded like the worst of it, so I made no attempt to season it blandly, as an English cook in the twenties probably would have. Instead I thought of a collagen-rich broth made from a Chinese recipe, with chicken feet infused with the flavor of peanuts and red dates…’ https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2022/03/10/cooking-with-dorothy-sayers/