Basil Rathbone's
Favorite Recipes:
Yorkshire
Pudding

Rathbone enjoying a good meal |
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Given Basil Rathbone's British heritage, it's no surprise that one of
his favorite dishes was Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, a hearty, traditional English
dinner. Below is Basil
Rathbone's recipe for Yorkshire Pudding, as it appears in a little booklet called Hollywood
Recipes: Food Secrets of the Movie Stars (by Delight Evans, Editor of Screenland
Magazine, and published by the American
Stove Company in 1938).
"Here's how Hollywood eats for Health and
Beauty" writes the editor in the introduction. The other Hollywood
stars and their favorite recipes are:
- Joan Blondell -- Chicken Chop Suey
- Olivia DeHavilland -- Angel Cake
- Gail Patrick--Avocados with Crab Meat
- Gladys Swarthout -- Turban of Fish
- Fay Wray -- Sweetbread and Mushroom Patties
- Billy and Bobby Mauch -- Chocolate Pudding
- Gene Raymond -- Cheese Pudding
- Pat O'Brien -- Spinach Ring
- Fernand Gravet -- Apple Snow Pudding
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- Anita Louise -- Kidney Saute Madeira
- Eleanore Whitney -- Fried Celery Hearts
- Gale Sondergaard -- Danish Apple Cake
- Hugh Herbert -- Chili
- Dorothy Lamour -- Deviled Oysters on Half Shell
- Errol Flynn -- Irish Beef Pasties
- Jeanette MacDonald -- Waffles
- Claudette Colbert -- Crepes Suzette
- Bette Davis -- Scallops in Bacon
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Another favorite Rathbone recipe comes from the book Famous Stars
Favorite Foods (Hollywood, Ca.: Fannie Sniff, editor and publisher,
1938).
VICHY SOIS SOUP
| Boil potatoes and onions together. Put through a
sieve. When cool, add sour cream until mixture is of good
consistency. Fill full of chopped chives. Put mixture in ice box or
refrigerator. Two hours before serving, thin out with French Vichy
water and put back in ice box or refrigerator to be thoroughly
chilled. This soup should be served in large bowls surrounded by
cracked ice. (Note: Soup should be ice cold when served; otherwise
flavor is impaired.) |
Other stars whose recipes are in Famous Stars Favorite Foods
include:

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