Toby Atkin-Wright

Another year, another Frogmarch. Every May we head away for a long weekend with friends. This year we’ve rented a house called Baysdale Abbey, which is a little way inland from Whitby. We will have thirteen adults and assorted children. We’ll be driving down tomorrow, to arrive in time for tea.

As usual, Andrew and I have planned the catering. We should have fun cooking. A few years ago we had our Frogmarch at a house in Norfolk that had an Aga; that introduced a pleasant element of experimentation in the kitchen, but I think we’ll be on a regular cooker this time.

( Menu behind the cut… )

Many of the recipes are from my favourite cookbook; Marguerite Patten’s Classic Dishes Made Simple (1969). I have my grandfather’s copy; when we moved out of the flat in 1998, Andrew had a long search to find his own copy.

Another year, another Frogmarch. Every May we head away for a long weekend with friends. This year we’ve rented a house called Baysdale Abbey, which is a little way inland from Whitby. We will have thirteen adults and assorted children. We’ll be driving down tomorrow, to arrive in time for tea.

As usual, Andrew and I have planned the catering. We should have fun cooking. A few years ago we had our Frogmarch at a house in Norfolk that had an Aga; that introduced a pleasant element of experimentation in the kitchen, but I think we’ll be on a regular cooker this time.

( Menu behind the cut… )

Many of the recipes are from my favourite cookbook; Marguerite Patten’s Classic Dishes Made Simple (1969). I have my grandfather’s copy; when we moved out of the flat in 1998, Andrew had a long search to find his own copy.

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We were banned from making toasties in the work kitchen some time ago, due to the lingering smell and complaints from the MSc students¹ who had to work in the room that contains the kitchen. The rules appear to have been relaxed recently, however, so James, Alex, Alastair and I made a quick trip to the DUSA shop and stocked up on toastie ingredients.

Needless to say, we are now well fed. James and the toastie machine were as one, like a cybernetic crispy high-fat food production engine. Now all we have to cope with is cakes at 3.30pm — Thursday is CMRU² cake day.


1 — But the MSc students are from mechanical engineering, and we are civil engineering, so we don’t have that much sympathy.
2 — Web page amusingly out of date: last updated December 2000 if you believe the footer.

We were banned from making toasties in the work kitchen some time ago, due to the lingering smell and complaints from the MSc students¹ who had to work in the room that contains the kitchen. The rules appear to have been relaxed recently, however, so James, Alex, Alastair and I made a quick trip to the DUSA shop and stocked up on toastie ingredients.

Needless to say, we are now well fed. James and the toastie machine were as one, like a cybernetic crispy high-fat food production engine. Now all we have to cope with is cakes at 3.30pm — Thursday is CMRU² cake day.


1 — But the MSc students are from mechanical engineering, and we are civil engineering, so we don’t have that much sympathy.
2 — Web page amusingly out of date: last updated December 2000 if you believe the footer.


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