When I left school, I worked in London at an academic publisher. I had wanted to be a reporter, but I couldn’t ride a bike! Two years after school, I met my husband John. We had nine children and lived on a smallholding in Kent with many pets (and pests). I wrote the whole time. The children did, too, but they were also artistic like John. We were all very happy. I acquired a typewriter and wrote short stories for children, articles on family life and romance for magazines. I received wonderful feedback. I soon graduated to writing novels and joined the Romantic Novelists’ Association. I have had many books published over the years and am over the moon to see my books out in the world once again.
A Recipe for Cheese and Potato Pie
During her time at Amy Able College, Evie and her fellow students enjoyed a warming supper of cheese and potato pie. Now you can try it too . . .
‘They sat at long refectory tables to eat their simple but satisfying supper after saying grace: cheese and potato pie, nicely browned on top, with a fresh green salad. Baskets were piled high with warm rolls, butter was apportioned on a plate: there were jugs of water.’
For the pie
750g of potatoes
100ml of crème fraiche
A pinch of grated nutmeg
Ready-made puff pastry – 2 × 375g
250g of camembert cheese
One egg – beaten
Plain Flour – for dusting
For the salad
One shallot – finely chopped
Half a shredded lettuce
A handful of spinach
Half a cucumber – chopped
Olive oil – to drizzle
The juice of half a lemon
Salt – a pinch
Method
1. Heat the oven to 200°c. Wash the potatoes, then place them in a deep pan of water and bring to the boil. Cook for a further two minutes. Once cooked, remove the water and mix the potatoes with the crème fraiche. Season by sprinkling with nutmeg and then set aside.
2. Dust your work surface with flour and roll out the puff pastry and cut a circle of around 28cm wide. Then place on a baking tray.
3. Place a third of the potatoes in the middle of the pastry and sit the cheese on top. Then place the remaining potatoes around the cheese, leaving a 1cm border at the edge of the pastry.
4. Roll the second puff pastry sheet out and cut into a circle around 30cm wide and brush the edges with egg. Drape the circle over the cheese and potato mixture, crimping as you go around. A tight seal is important to avoid leaking.
5. Brush the egg over the lid and gently score the pastry. Bake for thirty minutes until golden brown and puffed up. When removed from the oven, brush the pastry with a little more egg and leave to cool for five minutes.
6. Place the salad in a bowl with the dressing and enjoy!
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Sunny grew up in the mother and baby home on Grove Lane, London.
The daughter of a wartime nurse from Trinidad and a Polish pilot, Sunny was abandoned by her mother shortly after her birth and taken in by Nan, the warm and gentle proprietress.
Never having known her parents, Sunny has always felt like she doesn’t quite fit in, but at sixteen-years-old, she is ready to find her place in the world. Heading out to start her first job, she finally feels she has some idea of who she wants to be.
As 1950s post-war London is changing at a rapid pace, so is Sunny.
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First published in Great Britain in 2020 by Zaffre
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Copyright © Sheila Newberry, 2020
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