It was, for nearly two years after this, rye and Indian meal without yeast, potatoes, rice, a very little salt pork, molasses, and salt; and my drink, water.
Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine hoe-cakes, which I baked before my fire out of doors on a shingle or the end of a stick of timber sawed off in building my house; but it was wont to get smoked and to have a piny flavor, I tried flour also; but have at last found a mixture of rye and Indian meal most convenient and agreeable.
A curious eye, privileged to take an account of stock and investigate behind the counter, would have discovered a barrel, yea, two or three barrels and half ditto,--one containing flour, another apples, and a third, perhaps,
Indian meal. There was likewise a square box of pine-wood, full of soap in bars; also, another of the same size, in which were tallow candles, ten to the pound.
The satkora, too, was spot on, far from the overpoweringly citrus-y flavour I had feared when Julie chose it, and although I won't be adding the Bombay duck to my list of
Indian meal must-haves, I always enjoy a new experience and it was certainly that.
Closet detectives will have the chance to track down clues and unmask the murderer while tucking into a three-course authentic
Indian meal following by revelling to music by the Saqi roadshow.
"We're all going for an
Indian meal tomorrow night but I'm hoping all my friends and family will still buy my drinks.
Lots up for grabs included a home-made
Indian meal for two, a three-course home-cooked meal for four, cleaning and baby-sitting vouchers.
Contract worker Tivy, 49, from Sully, was caught doing 102mph by a mobile speed camera the morning after he had eaten the
Indian meal.
Meal-appeal and shelf-appeal are combined in Sundar Indian Style Pilau Rice, the first of a new range of rice meals from Simpson Ready Foods, tel:0161 865 2241, that are designed to make cooking this universal complement to an
Indian meal easier than ever.
SINNER: Bombay Potato (with
Indian meal for two), Sainsbury's, 100 cals per 100g.
A three-course
Indian meal back then was 2/6d (12.5p in today's currency) with three-course English meals at 2/9d.
They celebrated their luck with an
Indian meal and a bottle of red wine but have otherwise refused to splash out.