Food in books: onion soup from The Little White Horse

Sometimes preparing food can be as comforting as eating it. Kate Young turns to one of the meals from Elizabeth Goudge’s 1940s children’s classic

By Kate Young for The Little Library Café, part of the Guardian Books Network

The supper was delicious. There was home-made crusty bread, hot onion soup, delicious rabbit stew, baked apples in a silver dish, honey, butter the colour of marigolds, a big blue jug of warm mulled claret, and hot roasted chestnuts folded in a napkin.

The Little White Horse, Elizabeth Goudge

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