English Heritage’s Kathy Hipperson among chefs enticing people to try new recipes during lockdownCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageHer recipes are sometimes tricky and even alarming. Who has a copper turbot kettle? How do you crush chestnuts through a sieve with a pestle? Who makes macaroni cheese with no sauce?
“It is quite dry,” admitted Kathy Hipperson, a historical interpreter who plays the country house Victorian cook Avis Crocombe. “I’d say it’s not horrible, it’s different.”