Sregener is quite right about asking the librarian about Lord Woolton's Pie. If I had been the librarian in 1955, I would have walked over to the shelf and pulled down Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (originally published in 1870 -latest revision 2012).
When I checked the Amazon.com entry, I "looked inside" and found Woolton Pie right between Wool and Woolworth!
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