Showing posts with label Emma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Emma. Show all posts

Friday, February 7, 2020

Suprème de Volaille Richelieu

Suprème de Volaille Richelieu is a chicken dish. It appeared in Augusta Escoffier's 1903 cookbook, Le Guide Culinare. A suprème is the best part of the animal and in chicken it refers to a boneless, skinless breast.

The recipe reads: Season the suprêmes, flour, egg and breadcrumb and shallow fry in clarified butter. Arrange on a dish, coat with half melted Maître d’Hôtel Butter  (a savory compounded butter with parsley, lemon juice, salt and pepper),  decorate each suprême with 4 slices of truffle.

 In Wish With The Candles Professor Justin Teylingen recommends it to Emma Hastings. The British / American version of this dish is Chicken Supreme, which appears in A Dream Came True.

William and Mary's Hospital, Southhampton

In Wish With The Candles (interestingly the hospital isn't named until Chapter 7) :
  • Emma Hastings - Surgical Sister
  • Sister Cox  "Mad Minnie" - Theatre Superintendent
  • Staff Nurse Collins
  • Nurse Jessop
  • Nurse Fully
  • Mr Soames- Sr Consultant Surgeon
  • William Lunn "Little Willy"- Sr Registrar
  • Mr Cyril Bone - senior anesthetist
  • Peter Moore - houseman
  • Mrs. Tate
  • Tom - technician

Other Departments:

  • Sister Madge Freeman, Men's Surgical
  • Margaret, ICU Sister
  • Sybil, Casulty Sister
  • Angie Emmett, Orthopedics Sister
  • Brenda, Women's Surgical Sister
  • Sister Luce, fills in as theatre sister


Professor Justin Teylingen is visit in from Holland to showoff his new surgical techniques.

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Ford Popular

Greenish 2 door sedan from https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ford_Popular_1959_photo_2008_Castle_Hedingham.JPG
1959 Ford Popular
The Ford Popular, aka Ford Pop, was Britain's least expensive car, produced from 1953 to 1962. The pre-1959 models of the Popular had a commonly needed backup manual crank start.

In Wish With The Candles Emma Hastings drives the family car, a well used Ford Popular. Since the book takes place in 1969, the car would have been at least 7 years old.

Wish With The Candles

Wish With The Candles is Betty Neels 11th book originally published in 1972. It features Emma Hastings and Professor Justin Teylingen. Since Emma is stated to be born in 1945 and 26 years old, the book takes place in 1971.

The title comes from something the Professor tells Emma when she gets her birthday cake:
"Blow your hardest Emma. Remember you'll get a wish with the candles."

Uncrushable Jersey Dress review