The Maharani Mohini Kumari’s Lamb Pie

Ten tigers watched over me as I ate dinner in the cathedral-like dining room of the Wankaner Palace. Everything else in this vast and elaborate Edwardian edifice, standing on its hill above the town of Wankaner in Gujarat, India, is slightly dusty but the 95 beasts’ heads high up on every wall still look glossy and almost alive.

A member of the Wankaner royal family gave me this recipe, which is typical of the many Anglo-Indian-style dishes that the family have eaten since the days