Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer
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The Maidston Asylum
The building still exists, and it's now luxury flats. The architect who designed it was also the architect of maidston jail. There were accounts of e n patients who had been manacled to their beds for two years. In eliza's book there is the first reference to what we know as christmas pudding.
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