How Mary invented Toad in the Hole

When Mary was  newly married, women were still expected to do all the cooking.
Oh,dear she sighed as she got off her sports bike and went onto the  house.
I am so exhausted but we can just have sausages tonight,she thought.
Stan was very fond of pancakes so to augment the simple meal she decided to make some batter in the liquidiser and  she even had some fresh lemons.
Emile was only a kitten but could speak a few words in English
What is for my dinner,he asked pensively.
Would you like some sausages,Mary asked him  thoughtfully.
OK, the cat said in a grumbling voice.I’d love  a kipper more though
Just like Stan.Stan had been out in a fishing boat from Whitby once.When they were up there he and Mary visited the smoking parlour where herrings where smoked with real smoke.I don’t believe it was provided by men smoking cigarettes though.It was from a fire.
Mary put  the sausages into a roasting tin and browned them under the grill.Then she put them down on the table to wait while she got the batter out of the liquidiser so she could wash  the goblet  before it got sticky.All of a  sudden Emile darted across the kitchen as he saw a  mouse in the corner.Mary was knocked off her balance and so the batter flew out of the goblet into the roasting tin.
What a disaster.Both courses of the meal ruined in one sweep.Mary almost cried.Until she realised the batter was sizzling in the dripping so she put the roasting tin into the oven on a medium heat…. and so it was a new dish was invented
When Stan arrived home he was attracted by the lovely smell.Not from Mary,no, from the oven.
What are you  cooking,darling, he cried.
Mary was embarrassed as she didn’t want to tell him how she fell over.Why it’s  new dish I have got from a very  new cookery book. that has not yet been published.
Stan thought that was rather odd but as he  hoped for some hanky panky later on he remained silent,a tactic I highly recommend
Mary cooked some sprouts and carried the food to the table which Stan had laid.
Delicious, he cried as he ate the hot batter.What’s for  pudding,dearest?
Mmmm, yoghurt, Mary  answered,or hot grilled spiced peaches with thin cream.
I know you like Jam Roly Poly or Spotted Dick but I’ve not had time to do that.We can have  one at the weekend.
I’ll just have an apple,he cried.Will you play, Eve?
And so play all of us.