title: The Sunset Casserole Book
author: Sunset
description: Pictorial paperback 1972 96p. 11.00x8.10x0.50 CASSEROLES : MEAT; POULTRY; SEA FOOD; VEGETABLE. RICE, MACARONI, NOODLES, EGGS AND CHEESE, CASSEROLES FOR A CROWD.
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  Copyright © 1962 by Donald Gordon
  
  
  
  
  
  Published in Great Britain under the title, The Stars at Noon.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Take what you want,” said God.  
  “Take it and pay for it.”
  
  
  
  
  
  Spanish proverb.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  NOTE: All characters in this book are wholly fictitious. In particular, the
  Minister of Aviation portrayed in the story has no connection whatsoever with
  the distinguished person who actually holds this office.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Prologue
  
  
  
  
  
  JULY—the sun newly risen—and the countryside like a sleeping child, still and
  beautiful in the first soft flush of dawn. In the north the hills of the
  Cranborne Chase were up to their knees in mist, but in the south a sea breeze
  has chased the mist from all but the most low-lying hollows, and the Dorset
  seaboard lay bathed in light.
  
  
  
  
  
  Six o’clock—and the bells of a dozen churches ringing in the newborn day. And
  down the main (and only) street of Witchampton, Jasper Mowlem, the postman,
  bicycling out of the village on the st