A learned dissertation on dumpling
by
Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743
Publication Date: London : Printed for J. Roberts ..., and sold by E. Nutt ..., A. Dodd ..., and N. Blandford ..., 1726.
This wry essay examines the “dignity, antiquity, and excellence” of dumpling and pudding: “…there is nothing valuable in Art or Nature, but what, more or less, has an Allusion to Pudding or Dumpling. Why then should they be held in disesteem?” Another library's copy is available through
Internet Archive.