Great recipes for zombies. I recommend the Angelo Stew. I’ve made it. Nuclear isn’t the word.
I will have to try that stew, although I have yet to find mexican chorizo that doesn’t disintegrate.
Spanish chorizo is the hard stuff, apparantly.
But it still sounds awesome.
In one of Jack Vance’s books (The Face, I believe) set on a planet noted galaxy-wide for its awful cuisine, the hero and his assistant are sampling the food at a particularly loathsome cafe, and he asks the waitress if he can get the house specialty without iodine or sulphur.
What about from the Dick Van Dyke show, when Laura made Peanut Butter Avocado Dip and left out the mustard? People have been trying ever since to make a workable AND edible recipe out of that.
When I first got the book, I did a meal of Neeps Hackit with Balmagowry, Beef Alamode (larded with bacon), Lobscouse, a Sea Pie (only two decks), and Spotted Dog. Oh, and I cheated and made some sautéed leeks.
I’ve also made a few of the puddings - quaking pudding is my favorite, although Christmas Pudding is a lot of fun (mmm, fire). Although I dunno if it counts as fictional - it’s all stuff people did eat, after all, rather than new recipes. Probably why it stands up so much better than most literary recipes.
I read a kid’s/YA book when I was in 5th grade back in the early 70’s. The two girls who were the protagonists made “alphabet burgers” which were hamburgers with various toppings chosen for the first letter of their names. I can’t remember the title of the book, but I did try some of their combinations at the time. Many of them were quite tasty.
Yes, the book is The Face, the world is Dar Sai, although Gersen also visits a Darsh eating-house on the more refined planet Aloysius. It seems as though the Darsh don’t so much relish their own food as take a conspicuous pride in being able to stomach it at all where lesser men would be nauseated. 
And in the last book Gersen is treated to a particularly hot spicy stew on another world, Mouderveldt IIRC, on the suggestion of a mischievous waiter. But Gersen is a seasoned traveller who has eaten the hottest food and drink the Oikumene has to offer, and tucks in without turning a hair.
Neither of those recipes are fiction - they’re traditional English foods (Spotted Dog is also known as Spotted Dick).
The sage and onion stuffing several pages and a couple of chapters thither into that book is almost exactly the recipe my mom uses for stuffing our turkeys. It’s her famous Thanksgiving stuffing except we make it in larger quantities and add celery.
My favorite literary recipe was the one for meringue mushroom clouds in the back of the original Fallout handbook. It was a delightfully quirky detail in a delightfully quirky manual.
Vance must have a thing for vile food. In “The Star King,” Gersen is tracking down a member of the Sandusker race, which are said to be religious fanatics who eat vile food rather than flagellate themselves. He describes the smell of it as “a heavy sweet-sour organic reek that distends the nostrils.” When he samples a morsel, “the inside of his mouth seemed first to tingle, then expand. His tongue coiled back in his throat.”
The food he describes on the planet Sarkovy sounded even worse!
Has Edward Lear been mentioned yet? In “Three Receipts for Domestic Cookery,” you can learn to make an amblongus pie, crumbobblious cutlets, and gosky patties.
I’ve made it. Quite labor-intensive and fairly nummy! I didn’t use the giant bowl, but made the pastry and lined a HUGE cheesecake springform pan which worked great and made the whole thing look stunning.
Anybody remember this? …It was one of the first “advanced” programs I learned at 13 on the VIC-20. Basically a computer “menu” subroutine with recipe choices. They might be the most famous recipes in the history of homecomputing.
10 PRINT “PLEASE PICK A CHOICE”
20 PRINT “FROM THE MENU:”
30 PRINT
40 PRINT “A…CHICKEN SOUP”
50 PRINT “B…SPAGHETTI”
60 PRINT “C… STEAK AND EGGS”
200 GET A$:IFA$="“THEN 200
210 IF A$=“A” THEN 500
220 IF A$=“B” THEN 700
230 IF A$=“C” THEN 900
490 GOTO 200
500 PRINT”( shift/clr/home)MIKE’S CHICKEN SOUP’
510 PRINT
520 PRINT"TAKE 1 CHICKEN. KILL"
530 PRINT"AND PLUCK. REMOVE"
540 PRINT"GIBLETS. BOIL 4 QTS"
550 PRINT"WATER IN A LARGE POT"
560 PRINT"ADD CHICKEN. BOIL"
570 PRINT"2 HOURS, OR UNTIL"
580 PRINT"HOUSE SMELLS GOOD."
590 PRINT
600 PRINT “HIT ANY KEY TO GO ON”
610 GETA$:IF A$="" THEN 610
620 GOTO 10
700 PRINT “( shift/clr/home)MA’S SPAGHETTI”
710 PRINT
720 PRINT “BROWN 1 LB. GROUND”
730 PRINT “BEEF, WITH 1 ONION”
740 PRINT “AND 1 GREEN PEPPER.”
750 PRINT “ADD 1 LG. CAN TOMATO”
760 PRINT “PUREE, 6 OZ. CAN TOM.”
770 PRINT “PASTE, 6OZ. WATER,”
780 PRINT “3 CLOVES GARLIC, SALT”
790 PRINT “& PEPPER, RED PEPPER,”
800 PRINT “OREGANO. SIMMER 1 HR”
810 PRINT “& SERVE WITH COOKED”
820 PRINT “NOODLES.”
830 GOTO 590
900 PRINT “( shift/clr/home)STEAK AND EGGS”
910 PRINT
920 PRINT “TAKE 1 COOKED STEAK”
930 PRINT “AND COOKED EGGS.”
940 PRINT “SERVE TOGETHER WITH”
950 PRINT “BEVERAGE.”
960 GOTO 590
I remember reading in fourth grade about a princess who eats a bowl of skyblue pink ice cream. I couldn’t imagine what that wonderful dish, fit for a princess, must look like. But know I know that it would be exactly like eating a sunrise.
And -
Everything from “Babette’s Feast.”
at last, someone else =)
I will confess that I have made a number of the dishes from the feast, though getting quail was a pain in the rump, had to special order them online and they were expensive. I was very tempted to break out the .22 and plink some doves to substitute. I ended up grinding buckwheat groats to get the buckwheat flour for the pancakes. Only buckwheat I could find at the time was already in pancake mix, and the flavor profile would have been whacked.
Not from a fiction book but in the great book The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll, an early account of tracking a computer hacker in 1989, as a footnote, he gives the recipe for the chocolate chip cookies he mentions in the story. It’s a beauty.
*2 eggs, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup regular sugar, 2 sticks softened butter. Fold in 21/4 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon baking soda and a couple teaspoons of vanilla. For an extra chocolate jag, toss in 3 tablespoons of cocoa. Oh don’t forget 2 cups chocolate chips. Bake ’ em at 375°F for 10 minutes.
*
When, in actuality, that much artificial food coloring would likely make you sick.