Food in the books set in wartime (Kidillin, Smuggler Ben, Adventurous Four)

[Lucky Star]

Yes, that was the first picnic in 2007 (though not the first Enid Blyton Day, of course). It was drizzling with rain and we sat in a huddle on the ground next to "Gloomy Water", which we reached by dodging the dog dirt along a woodland track! Stef steered us in the direction of Dinton Pastures the following year, and we didn't look back!

Ah yes I remember that. It was not the greatest spot for a picnic but we did OK I think. There area couple of pictures of it here.

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My first EBS Day. What a great memory.

[Anita Bensoussane]

Happy memories, John! I remember baking almond macaroons and gingerbread for the picnic. The weather wasn't very Blytonian but there was plenty of Blytonian feasting and banter!

"Quite right - food is expensive just now - so you can go out this afternoon and buy a meat pie from the cookie-shop.

What is a cookie-shop? Surely it doesn't mean a cookie as in the chocolate chip/ biscuit sort? Was there even such a thing as a biscuit shop or was it another name for a sweet shop?

I took "cookie-shop" to be a colloquial term for a baker's shop, though I could be wrong.

I didn't know curds and whey was the same as junket either. What's the difference between those and a milk jelly then I wonder? Maybe something along these lines is what Sid's chocolate mould was too.

I imagine chocolate mould to be similar to a chocolate mousse, set in a mould, but I don't know for certain.

Edit: Just found a recipe for old-fashioned honeycomb mould. I expect chocolate mould would have been quite similar, but with cocoa powder or melted chocolate (and perhaps no lemon zest or juice)?

https://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/int ... comb-mould

[GloomyGraham]

I imagine chocolate mould to be similar to a chocolate mousse, set in a mould, but I don't know for certain.

I always thought it would be a chocolate blancmange as they were more common in those days than mousses. Strawberry blancmange was the only one I really liked though.

Oh... I see I should have checked page one where blancmange seems to have been disc ussed quite a bit..