"Thank you. Oh my goodness," she was genuinely surprised at how well it turned out. "The receipt is from last century sometime. I think the secret is in the lemon juice and spring onions. Cook said to let it sit for three hours before I battered it. It was a lot of work but it was very fun."

She was chuckling too about the beast who nommed happily away at the apples she had saved for her. "You could marry me because of the chicken." She laughed and started to spoon out the pasta and the other things she cooked, handing that to him and then dishing hers out. She tried the mac and cheese and her eyes widened, "Well then."