(From a handwritten recipe book)

1/8/30

Drop Scones

450g flour

4 tbs sugar

Pinch salt

2 cups milk

1 egg

2 tsp bi-carb soda

3 tsp cream of tartar

3 tbs butter

(Use Tues.  Double recipe? Lady Mira requests extra) 

Tae food upstairs maself – I’ll no hae ma meals used for bally poison. Is it true? 

Augist today, bewaur! (Walter says the poison must hae been done by the ghaists.  One ghaist or two?  He cannae seem tae make up his min’, but says it's certain a she-wraith. Says thay roam the place like fients, seeking mischief on a house what brought thaim ill.  Tairible accident, faur back. Servant much like maself, wha haed a mishanter. Think Walter only wishes tae gie me a fright.)

Hunt up Walter, he haesna even pretended tae water the rosemary this week.

Tonight's supper: chicken & leek cobbler, cheese scones, mash. Raspberry tart. (For weekend- What is biryani? Find recipe, Lady Mira insists)