Dorothy L Sayers’
detective Lord Peter Wimsey first meets Harriet Vane in the novel Strong Poison when she is on trial for
the murder of Phillip Boyes. He falls in love with her immediately but, in a
very sensitive portrayal of a woman’s mental state, Sayers makes her refuse his
proposals until she has been able to re-establish herself as an independent
woman, successful writer of fiction and respected academic.
In Strong Poison, Vane’s estranged lover, Phillip Boyes, has been
found dead from acute arsenic poisoning. He had a meeting with Harriet just
before he died, but the last meal he ate was with his cousin Norman Urquhart. Although partially prepared in the kitchen, it was cooked at the table by
Urquhart and shared between them, so surely it can’t be the source of the
poison or Urquhart would be dead as well?
Come to dinner Harriet
(and bring Lord Peter with you, too.) We can banish old ghosts and have this
for dessert. I might even try cooking it at the table over a spirit lamp.
SWEET OMELETTE
2 free range eggs
2tbsp caster sugar
1tsp butter
Separate eggs and whites
into bowls.
Beat the whites into soft
peaks.
Mix the yolks with the
sugar.
Take a spoonful of the
whites and add to the yolks.
Then pour the yolk mixture into the whites and
stir until combined.
Heat the butter in a pan.
Pour
in half of the mixture.
(I actually tried this
twice. The first time I put all the mixture in one pan but it was too thick to
manage properly. The second time, I split it between two pans and it worked
much better.)
Cook through...
...then turn
and fold.
Serve with some jam, a
sweet sauce of your own, or a sprinkling of sugar.
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