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Jeremy Bentham’s recipe for Turnip Pudding
By ucylr22, on 1 December 2015
Recipes written by Jeremy Bentham are just some of the delights to be found in our Bentham Collection, and earlier this year students in the UCL Centre for Publishing worked with the Transcribe Bentham initiative to produce a cookbook
Many of the recipes in the manuscripts contain some rather grisly ingredients, but here’s a nice seasonal one that’s suitable for vegetarians, and by substituting the cow’s milk with almond or hazelnut milk it would even be suitable for vegans.
Turnip pudding 4/4lb
Turnips 6lb – – – 1
peasemeal 2lb – 11/2
milk 1 quart 2
water 1 quart
treacle – 1/2
carraway seeds 1/4
labour 3/4
The turnips to be boiled & mashed then mixed with the other ingredients & baked.
One Response to “Jeremy Bentham’s recipe for Turnip Pudding”
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Surely you can combine this with an extract from Charles “Turnip” Townshend’s instructions for how to grow them for yourself. Or at least from Pope’s Imitations of Horace.