Why Agatha Christie never made camel soufflé

Funny creatures have begun to appear in Somerset. Little herds of vicuna, llamas and guanaco, and other similar animals. They are farmed for various purposes, chiefly hair. We already have riding camels, but I am expecting camels to appear any moment as a dairy herd. What, can you drink camel’s milk? Certainly. The view of Dr Ulrich Wernery, a vet and microbiologist, is that it is ‘the nearly perfect animal product for humans’. This ingenious German has for 20 years been looking after the hawks, horses and camels of the Emir of Dubai, and I learn from the Financial Times that he has now assembled a herd of 500 milking camels to produce the stuff on a commercial scale.

Camel’s milk is top-hole because it has only half the fat of cow’s milk, has more Vitamin C and can be drunk by those unhappy children who are ‘lactose intolerant’ (I know of one case, and life is very hard for those so afflicted).