The last thing you expect to find in a recipe book

Fri, 03 Jan 2025 10:00:00 +0000
miscellaneous

I’ve just returned from a trip to New Zealand over Christmas - my first time back since before covid. While there, I was looking through an old handwritten recipe book, which my mother inherited from an aunt (or great aunt, I forget now), and on the back of one of the many recipe newspaper cuttings (which were pasted in, but eventually worked themselves loose over the past 50 years or so), I found the following:

Corpse transportation is, I think, pretty much the last thing you’d expect to find in a recipe book.

In terms of dating this historical nugget of awesomeness, it had to have been published some time between 1930 and 1967 (NZ stopped using the pound in 1967, and from the earlier reference to the Referee boxing magazine - from what I can tell, that was published between the 30s and 60s)