“Because, of course, another consequence of the island's having spun the wrong way is that all the things we have to make--buns and cakes and shortbread--grow on trees and bushes, but in Rotundia they have to make their cauliflowers and cabbages and carrots and apples and onions, just as our cooks make puddings and turnovers.”
A cook of roughly the same moment, setting down the same dish.
apt to oppress the stomach than hot wheat bread or short cakes of any kind. And good, light, nourishing bread may be made by using five parts of Indian and one of rye or wheat flour, (see receipts for "Rye and Indian Bread;") which is better than to cook it hot at every meal.
Sources: The passage is from E. (Edith) Nesbit, The Book of Dragons, free to read in full at Project Gutenberg. The recipe is from Hale, Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million of 1857, also free in full. Both are in the public domain in the United States. The binding above is ours — plum cloth, pudding stamp.