Oat Shortbread Slice

When Roma Baxter married her husband, Robert, in 1959, she did so little cooking and disliked being away from her childhood home so much that it triggered a family joke. ‘They said that I would have to go home to sleep and Robert would have to go home to get a meal,’ she laughs.

Roma not only ended up a prize-winning show cook, but she ran a catering business for almost twenty years, serving thousands of meals at all sorts of public and private even