One
of 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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