Chapter 14 February 1951

Max and Cohen Bookstore 84 Charing Cross Road, West Central London February 2, 1951 Miss Helene Hanff United States New York City, New York 28 14 East Ninety-fifth Avenue Dear Miss Hanff: Glad to hear you liked the Quiller-Kutcher book. The Oxford Selected Essays in English is not currently in stock, we will keep an eye out for you. As for The Lives of Sir Roger de Coverley, we happen to have at hand an eighteenth-century anthology which, besides containing many passages from that book, also includes the works of Chesterfield and Goldsmiths. article.This book has been carefully edited by Austin Dobson, and it is only priced at one dollar and fifteen cents in our shop.We have sent the book to you.If you want a more complete collection of Addison and Steele, please let me know and I will try my best to find it for you.

If Mr. Max and Mr. Cohen are not included in our store, there are six employees in total. Max and Cohen Bookstore Sincerely, Frank Del Middlesex Pinnacle East Wing February 20, 1951 Dear Helene: There is more than one method. My mother and I agree that the following method should be the easiest for you: prepare one cup of flour, one egg, half a cup of fresh milk, sprinkle a little salt, and stir well in a sea bowl until it becomes into a thick creamy consistency.Put it in the refrigerator for a few hours (so start doing it early in the morning, the best time is just right).When you're going to put the meat in the oven, set aside an iron pan to preheat it.One and a half hours before the meat is roasted, pour a little gravy on the iron plate, not too much, just enough to cover the iron plate.remember!Iron pans have to be baked "very hot".Then, put all the pudding ingredients you prepared earlier on the iron plate, and then let it continue to bake.In this way, the meat and pudding can be served out of the oven at the same time!

For someone who has never seen it, I really don't know how to describe it properly.In conclusion, a finished Yorkshire pudding should be puffy and puffy, with a crispy skin and, when you cut it open, actually hollow inside. Doug is still based in Norfolk with the RAF.The Christmas cans you sent us are strictly controlled and hoarded so that the whole family can enjoy them when he comes home from vacation.Dear Helene, you can imagine what a wonderful celebratory dinner we're going to have!However, you really shouldn't spend money on us like this! Time to post it so you can serve it up at Brian's birthday dinner in time, be sure to write and let me know how it turns out!

love you Cecily New York City 14 East Ninety-fifth Avenue February 25, 1951 Dear Cecily: The Yorkshire puddings are simply amazing!Because no one here has ever seen it before, I later had to describe it to others as "a cage of puffy, fluffy and delicate, melt-in-your-mouth extra-large scones"! Please don't worry about the food I sent.I also find it incredible that the overseas mail order company does not know if it is a non-profit organization, or whether the goods are tax-free or something?Anyway, their stuff is so cheap that the turkey I bought myself cost more than that big box of Christmas parcels I sent you.They do have some pricier items like huge rib roasts, or a whole leg of lamb or whatever.However, even those things are much cheaper than buying them from the butchers here. If that's the case, I can't send them to you if I chop them up.Browsing the catalog right now, I spread it out on the rug, and consider two comparable assortments: Parcel No. 105 (contains a dozen eggs and a carton of sweetbreads) and Parcel No. 217B (contains two dozen eggs. , no sweet noodles), I am really unwilling to send a dozen eggs, so what can you do if you each share two?But Brian told me that powdered dried eggs tasted like chewy wax, which was really nerve-wracking.

A producer just called me up and said he liked the script I wrote (not enough to put it on stage).He was planning to make a TV series and asked me if I was interested in writing a TV script. He said casually: "Two copies for one episode!" It took me a long time to figure out what he meant: the manuscript fee for each episode is 200 yuan .I used to revise scripts for the troupe, and my weekly salary was only forty yuan!I'm going to have a detailed talk with him tomorrow, so wish me luck! bless you sea ​​lotus