# S2E3 B is for Baked Beans, Bath Buns & Bagels Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931/s2e3-b-is-for-baked-beans-bath-buns-bagels Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931/s2e3-b-is-for-baked-beans-bath-buns-bagels.md Podcast: [A is for Apple: An Encyclopaedia of Food & Drink](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931) Published: 2025-03-12T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://a-is-for-apple.captivate.fm Audio file: https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/ec623d42-6f7c-47e7-881b-c2c2b86ba77c/S02E03-B-is-for-Baked-Beans-Bath-Buns-Bagels.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931/episodes/s2e3-b-is-for-baked-beans-bath-buns-bagels Duration seconds: 3591 ## Resource In this episode of Season B, Sam, Neil and Ally focus on the world of baking. Sam cooks up some delicious (or not) baked beans, Neil considers the Bath bun and Ally dives into bagel culture. Useful links, references and things mentioned in the episode: Baked Beans Beans: A History by Ken Albala (2007) The Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Child (1829) The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merrit Farmer (1896) - ( this is a link to the 1910 version ) The Truth about Baked Beans by Megan Muckenhoupt  (2015) America’s Founding Food: The Story of New England Cooking by Keith Stavely & Kathleen Fitzgerald (2004) A shilling cookery for the people : embracing an entirely new system of plain cookery and domestic economy by Alexis Soyer (1854) Britain’s obsession with baked beans What’s For Tea, Mum? Beanz Meanz The Who! Martha Stewart’s Boston Baked Beans Bath Buns English Bread & Yeast Cookery by Elizabeth David (1977) English Food by Jane Grigson (3rd edition, 1992) The Taste of Britain by Laura Mason and Catherine Brown (1999) Neil’s recipe for seed cake Neil’s recipe for wigs Cobb’s Bath Buns recipe on Neil Cooks Grigson The Bath Bun Teashoppe Bagels https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/food/recipes/g43212153/street-party-food-ideas-recipes/ https://www.vice.com/en/article/these-black-bagels-are-the-anti-rainbow-bagel/ The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread by Maria Balinska  https://fairmountbagel.com/bagels-in-space/ Prince William and Kate Make Bagels in East London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhDQeLWMfY   https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2014/06/17/curious-history-bagel/   https://www.thejc.com/lets-eat/bagels-can-change-your-perspective-on-history-by77e9sr https://www.vice.com/en/article/these-black-bagels-are-the-ant… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931/episodes/s2e3-b-is-for-baked-beans-bath-buns-bagels/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-is-for-apple-an-encyclopaedia-of-food-drink-6817931/s2e3-b-is-for-baked-beans-bath-buns-bagels.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.