Scrambled dregs and soil with engine oil

Roald Dahl’s birthday is being celebrated in West Cork with the recreation of some of the crazy recipes from his books, writes Louise Roseingrave

A GOLDEN ticket. How we longed for one. And who didn’t present a mud burger to the chef upon reading James and the Giant Peach? Stink Bug’s Eggs, scrambled dregs, lickable wallpaper and wormy spaghetti — Roald Dahl’s relationship with food varied from the ridiculous to the sublime.

A champion of the limitless boundaries of imagination, one of the greatest storytellers of all time, he would have turned 96 today.