What's The Recipe Today, Jim?
The Jimmy Young Show was broadcast daily for 2 hours on national UK radio (Radio 1 and 2), from 1967 for many successful years. As well as the music, there was some magazine features, and one of them was a recipe for the day, often provided by one of The JY Prog's regular listeners. Anyone of a certain age will remember the introduction to the feature, as JY asked himself "What's The Recipe Today, Jim?".
And after a year, there was a book of the best. And sadly a copy went to a charity shop. Where, on the payment of a princely 49p, I rescued it.
One of my favourites, titter ye not, is from Mrs Crump of Solihull, who fed this regularly to her large police sergeant husband and three hungry children. I give you:
Mrs Crump's Baked Bean Pie
Grill 6 rashers of streaky bacon. Mix with 2 onions, chopped small, and an 8-oz tin of baked beans. Make up one-and-a-half pounds of creamed potato (packet or from scratch, I suspect Mrs Crump probably hadn't heard of packet mash). Use half the potato to line a casserole dish, making a well in it and pushing it up the sides. Fill the well with the bacon / onion / bean mixture. Cover with the remaining potato and 2 oz grated cheese (Mrs Crump would have had Cheddar.) Cook in a hot oven for 30 minutes so that the cheese top is crisp.
Feeds a family of five adequately and inexpensively.