Live Mushroom Trial in Australia: Continuation of Erin Patterson’s Cross-Examination on Day 30 of Victoria Triple Murder Trial

Patterson questioned about beef wellington recipe

Prosecutor Nanette Rogers SC is cross-examining Patterson. She begins by asking questions about the beef wellingtons she prepared.

Rogers suggests Patterson choose to make the meals with individual eye fillets instead of a single piece of meat because she wanted to serve individual beef wellingtons. She says this allowed Patterson to include death cap mushrooms in the beef wellingtons of her guests but not her own.

Patterson rejects both assertions.

Rogers says in conversations prior to the lunch with her Facebook friends, Patterson did mention adding foraged mushrooms to the beef wellington.

I was not planning to add foraged mushrooms.