Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

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Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

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Carving and Trussing, The Art of "Using-Up", Table Decoration, The Home Doctor, The Nursery, The Home Lawyer, Etc. The preface of Wilhelmina Rawson's Queensland Cookery and Poultry Book (1878), published in Australia, observes that: "Mrs. The work, which was frequently used in the kitchen, is unsurprisingly scarce institutionally, with just three copies traced worldwide, all held in the UK (University of Cambridge, British Library, Townend National Trust), and just a single copy of this first edition traced at auction.

I didn’t realise this was almost A5 in size with the tiniest writing I couldn’t read, even with my specs on! While the title of the episode is referring to a different book, the close-up shot of the binding and the width make it clear to the viewer that Jon Hamm's character is holding the 2,000-page full text, with "Modern Edition" added below the title on the spine. First edition of the first of Beeton's "cookery" books; the affordable spin-offs from her Book of Household Management (1861). The book thus advocates early rising, cleanliness, frugality, good temper, and the wisdom of interviewing servants rather than relying on written references. Beeton has been described as "the grandmother of modern domestic goddesses", like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith, who saw, as Beeton did, the need to provide reassuring advice on culinary matters for the British middle classes.I must frankly own, that if I had known, beforehand, that this book would have cost me the labour which it has, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it. For the book's 150th anniversary in 2011, the Royal Society of Chemistry planned to feature one of Beeton's recipes. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.

Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book With Sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties, Labour-Saving, Laundry Work, Etiquette, Marketing, Etc. The work also demonstrates the combination in everyday cooking of the "French-influenced cookery found in restaurants, at court, and in the great houses of the aristocracy", such as the recipe for "Veal à la Bourgeoise (Excellent)" on p. The account of how to make soup consists of a single essay, divided into general advice and numbered steps for making any kind of (meat-based) soup. with coloured frontispiece, 31 coloured plates and very numerous plates in monochrome; original grey boards, red cloth back elaborately blocked in blind and lettered in gilt, red sprinkled edges, backstrip dulled (but all letting entirely legible), a remarkably well-preserved, bright, clean, crisp copy.

However, while Lawson and Smith "insist that cooking can be easy, fun and uncomplicated", Beeton "acknowledges the labour and skill required to cook well". The Book of Household Management; Comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen Maid, Butler etc. Acton is acknowledged with "The following observations are extracted from a valuable work on Bread-making,† and will be found very useful to our readers . half title with advert on verso, frontis, xl, plate list, verso advt, [4] adverts printed in red and black, 1139, 12 (adverts) printed in red and black, 16 pp.

The allure continues with Golden Leaf Printing that adds a touch of elegance, while Hand Embossing on the rounded spine lends an artistic flair.The first editions after her death contained an obituary notice, but later editions did not, allowing readers to imagine that every word was written by an experienced Mrs. Another full-page colour plate ( pictured) showed a variety of fruits including apricots, white and black cherries, white, red, and black currants, a melon, strawberries, and varieties of plums, all piled high on circular dishes or fruit stands. Pages clean and bright, foxing to endpapers, cracked gutter on front endpaper and partial detachment (8cm at foot of page),rubbing and spotting to boards but otherwise firm. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. The conflicting opinions on the tomato occurring on the same page have been noted as seemingly careless editing.



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