To ask you to help me identify this children's book?

[Trulyatraditionalman]

It involved a fisherman's wife making kedgeree!?!

I appreciate that it's not a lot to go by. But it was one of my sister's favourites when she was very young, and she's desperate to remember the title!

Thank you omu
Handa’s surprise.
Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head.

The lighthouse keepers lunch?

Is it in Mowzer?

The light house keepers lunch!

It's not Handa's Surprise, that's set in Africa and is about fruit.

The Mousehole Cat

I don’t think there was kedgeree in the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch.

Was it a picture book?

Wasn't it Marmite in the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch?

@seatofmars

Wasn't it Marmite in the Lighthouse Keepers Lunch?

Mustard in the sandwiches. But she did make him a huge lunch. Lots of lovely 70s food, like peach surprise, but no kedgeree as I recall.

There's definitely a lot of fishy dishes in The Mousehole Cat.

@StanfordPines

Oh, yes!

I remember it being a really satisfying book...the lunch going alone the line. Need to get hold of it again.

The Mousehole Cat?

It's stargazy pie in the Mousehole Cat.

There's a picture book called Haddock by Jan Mark, where a mermaid loves a fisherman, and disguises herself as human but he insists on eating kedgeree, which puts her off...

From The Mousehole Cat

On Mondays they made morgy-broth, on Tuesdays they baked hake, on Wednesdays they cooked kedgeree, on Thursdays they grilled fairmaids, on Fridays they fried launces, on Saturdays they soused scad and on Sundays, they made star-gazy pie.

The fisherman didn't have a wife though.

Not sure how hold your sister is. Was it a picture boom or a chapter book? Topsy and Tim at the seaside? I think the fisherman's wife cooks mackerel though. Good luck with the search!

Wasn’t the fisherman and his wife was it?

Old and book not hold and boom!

Thanks all, it was actually this one!! Her memory was slightly off as it wasn't the fisherman's wife, it was about a fisherman's mother and a mermaid!

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0750014458/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_fabc_S22FSZFCXYVBFZ8MAXZB?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Has anyone else read it?