Saturday, June 24, 2023
A Hearty Meal
James Herriot, All Creatures Great and Small, chapter 57:
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The meal had taken up the whole of the round oak table by the fire—a thick steak of home-cured ham overlapping the plate with two fresh eggs nestling on its bosom, a newly baked loaf with the knife sticking in it, a dish of farm butter, some jam, a vast pot of tea and a whole Wensleydale cheese, circular, snow white, about eighteen inches high.Hat tip: Mrs. Laudator.
I could remember eating unbelievingly for a long time and finishing with slice after slice of the moist, delicately flavoured cheese. The entire meal had cost me half a crown.
