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Local cooks sharpened their skills while raising funds for the Rotary campaign to wipe out polio this month [10 May]. Executive chef Mark Thatcher, more used to directing nearly 70 staff in six restaurants at the House of Lords, gave a masterclass on soufflé-making in Harbledown that raised £200 earlier in May. The class was held in the kitchen of Richard and Cora Kemball-Cook in their house in Harbledown. click colour photos to enlarge |
| The twelve guests started with the hot Soufflé Suissess: this was the dish Queen Mother always asked for when she dined at Le Gavroche. In fact soufflés were a great favourite for her Sunday lunch parties along with lobster croquettes. The Soufflé Suisses contained double cream, eggs, butter and cheese: so how did the Queen Mother live to over 100? |  |
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MasterChef Mark Thatcher then followed with a delicious hot raspberry soufflé and a cold Soufflé Milanese made from lemons and coated with almond nibs. Cora said that she had always avoided whisking eggs but now had more confidence following Mark's good advice to thoroughly sterilise both the bowl and whisk with boiling water. |
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Polio was killing 350,000 children a year in 1985, when Rotary International began its drive to eradicate the disease. Many other children in the developing world were left permanently disabled. After a highly successful 30-year campaign, polio’s toll is now down to only 350 new cases a year.
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