One of Basil Rathbone's
Favorite Recipes:
Yorkshire Pudding


Rathbone enjoying a good meal.
Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding

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).

Mmm. This looks good!

"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
  • 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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