For completeness, Helen: I've found the book Herself got that recipe from. It's The Food Aid Cookery Book, edited by Delia Smith, foreword by Terry Wogan, proceeds to Band Aid, BBC Publications 1986.   Small photos of both persons on the cover.

.... We wouldn't save any time freezing premade ingredients* for cooking, either. We don't have a microwave, By Order.

* My mind keeps saying "components", even when I know a stew is not soldered together.