This story in the Guardian has been making the rounds in the food blog world and people are rightly freaking out about it.
Guardian writer Tim Hayward is given access to a cache of books that celebrated British food writer Elizabeth David bequeathed to London's Guildhall library upon her death. In the margins and on slips of paper are "bitchy annotations," including one in which she designates the following recipe as the "most revolting dish ever devised":
1 pint cold cooked macaroni
1/2 pint cooked or tinned pears
1/2 pint grated raw carrot
French dressing to moisten
2 heaped tablespoons minced onion
1/2 pint cooked or minced string beans
Procedure: Mix the chopped macaroni and vegetables; moisten with French dressing, flavouring with garlic if liked. Serve on a dish lined with lettuce leaves. Decorate with mayonnaise and minced pimento or chives.
The recipe and note were found inside Ulster Fare, published in 1945 by the Belfast Women's Institute Club.
What do you think, serious eaters? Is that the worst recipe ever devised? Or have you seen worse? Please dish!
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