Mary Poppins in the kitchen

Well... it's a cook book, with recipes, and the recipes are fitted into a story. A pretty bad story. It doesn't have any of the early Mary Poppins charm and magic. All the “friends and relatives” visiting are old acquaintances, and they are just cooking, and repeating things from the previous books. It's not bad, but it isn't good either.

The recipes sound good. Good old-fashioned English home cooking.

Day 1: “Roast beef,” said Mary Poppins. “And Yorkshire pudding to go with it and just a suspicion of cabbage.”
with gingerbread as dessert. I always thought the gingerbread was like cookies, but these are like small cakes. With raisins.
Day 2: “Shepherd's pie always comes after roast beef. It uses up the remains. Carrots, and mashed potatoes for the top of the pie and apple charlotte to follow.”
Day 3: Irish stew (of lamb chops) and upside down cake with peaches.
Day 4: beef patties with green peas and bread-and-butter pudding.
Day 5: roast chicken and bread sauce for dinner and green beans and fruit salad
Day 6: Lancashire hot pot and cherry pie
Day 7: Chicken, green salad, potatoes and a lemon soufflé

There's also a recipe for
date bread, honey and bananas (bananas baked in honey and butter... slurp!), Easter cake, jam tarts, twelfth night cake, meringues, nut loaf, oatmeal cookies, queen of puddings, fried trout, very plain cake, walnut cake, candy kisses (sounds like some sort of marzipan), and zodiac cake. I don't know what makes it a zodiac cake, it's a chocolate nut cake. Decorated with silver stars. Or not.