‘Science versus Rule-of-Thumb – a Draw!’ from Uncle Joe’s Nonsense for Young and Old Children

Creator

Date

1934

Identifier

Mellor Papers

Type

Publisher

London: The Ceramic Society by Longmans, Green and Co.

Abstract

This cartoon from Uncle Joe’s Nonsense (1934) depicts the story of a competition between Mellor and his sister Agnes. The aim was to make the best pudding based on Mrs Beeton’s recipe ‘No 754,629,831,429’. Agnes accidentally (on purpose?) left a bit of dough in the cookbook which caused two pages to be stuck together. Agnes made a good pudding while Mellor made an ‘addled pudding’, concocted from the first half of one pudding recipe and the second half of another. Mellor then suggested that Agnes ‘ought to drink my pudding and I eat hers.’ Mellor’s father was the judge and he declared the contest a draw.

Files

Cabinet 14 uncle joe.jpg

Citation

J. W. Mellor, “‘Science versus Rule-of-Thumb – a Draw!’ from Uncle Joe’s Nonsense for Young and Old Children,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/8949.