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Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

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In 2012 the food economist for the British television period drama Downton Abbey described Beeton's book as an "important guide" for the food served in the series. Isabella Beeton's final work, the 'Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery' was first published in 1865 and is second in importance only to 'Household Management'. 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. with coloured frontispiece, 11 coloured plates and 48 plates in monochrome, fore-edges very lightly dust-soiled; original decorative brown cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked in blind and lettered in black, a remarkably well-preserved copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chafed (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. 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.

If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. This masterpiece has been meticulously Reprinted in 2023, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1909.The preface of Wilhelmina Rawson's Queensland Cookery and Poultry Book (1878), published in Australia, observes that: "Mrs.

The conflicting opinions on the tomato occurring on the same page have been noted as seemingly careless editing. 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. Personalised advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” of information under California and other state privacy laws, and you may have a right to opt out.

The whole plant has a disagreeable odour, and its juice, subjected to the action of the fire, emits a vapour so powerful as to cause vertigo and vomiting. Chapters 51 to 59 describe cooking in various international styles including French, German, Spanish, Jewish, Australian, South African, Indian, American, and Canadian cookery. Beeton has been compared on the strength of the book with modern " domestic goddesses" [1] like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. Keep in mind that anyone can view public collections - they may also appear in recommendations and other places. The actual instructions are headed "Mode", as "Cut up the veal, and put it with the bones and trimmings of poultry".

The front board although in good condition does have a little loss to the corners with surface wear to the rear. Cookery is introduced with words about "the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilization", with a mention of man "in his primitive state, [living] upon roots and the fruits of the earth", rising to become in turn "a hunter and a fisher"; then a "herdsman" and finally "the comfortable condition of a farmer. I remember Isabella coming out of the kitchen one day, 'This won't do at all,' she said, and gave me the cake that had turned out like a biscuit.and the more recently introduced Indian fare, such as the "Bengal recipe for making mango chutney" on p. Beeton's practice has been criticised as plagiarism; Beeton's modern biographer Kathryn Hughes talks of her "lifting" and "brazenly copying" recipes from others, and says that this was "the way that cookery books had been put together from time immemorial . a] Many recipes state in separate brief sections when a recipe is "seasonable and for how many persons it is "sufficient".

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