Do not attempt to make a curry in a hurry. Two hours is the least in which you can make a vegetable curry worthy of the name, and it is far wiser to allow three or four hours.

Do not ask your cook to make a curry on a day when she is busy with other matters, for it will take an hour or more of undivided attention, throughout the time of cooking.

There is, however, no reason that curry should not be made the day before it is wanted, for it improves by keeping and by being re-heated.