[Margaret Pilkington]

Taddy, I did not know the chef(or cooks) at the Royal or at QPH(as a student my time was between both these hospitals)...I only know the delights of the stuff they cooked.
All the patients raved about the porridge....they said it was lovely and creamy(I have never been a fan of porridge).
The cabinet pudding was delicious...and I woul forego a main course and just have that when it was on the menu in the staff dining room.
Whatever the patients were served was usually what was being served for staff too.

Back then the food was very good....bacon and tomatoes for breakfast, poached egg, scrambled egg was a gamble(we actually called it 'gambled egg') if you were close the kitchen and on a first delivery it was ok, but the further away you were and the rubbery the eggs became.
Ward 7 at the top of the 'new wing' was somewhere you would not get good 'gambled eggs.'