Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1923 New Edition

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One of the most famous books of the Victorian age is The Book of Household Management. With a History of the Origin, Properties, and Uses of all things connected with Home Life and Comfort by Isabella Mary Beeton (London, first edition 1861). The book thus advocates early rising, cleanliness, frugality, good temper, and the wisdom of interviewing servants rather than relying on written references. [23] Hughes, Kathryn. "Mrs Beeton and the art of household management". The British Library. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. Published under Creative Commons Attribution Licence She explains that she was thus attempting to make the basics of cookery "intelligible" to any "housewife". [2]

Barnes, Julian (5 April 2003). "Mrs Beeton to the rescue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015 . Retrieved 1 March 2016.

The food writer and chef Gerard Baker tested and revised 220 of Beeton's recipes, and published the result as Mrs. Beeton: How To Cook (2011). [48] T]hese are so prepared, improved, and dressed by skill and ingenuity, that they are the means of immeasurably extending the boundaries of human enjoyments. 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. What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. [2]

How successful was Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management?". Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper. No.1257. 23 December 1866. Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Sitwell, William (2012-04-18). "What Mrs. Beeton did to us". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 2013-12-29 . Retrieved 2013-09-10. Many of the recipes were copied from the most successful cookery books of the day, including Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families (first published in 1845), Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper (originally published in 1769), Marie-Antoine Carême's Le Pâtissier royal Parisien (1815), Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747), Maria Eliza Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery (1806), and the works of Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805–1876). This practice of Mrs. Beeton's has in modern times repeatedly been described as plagiarism. 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. [50]Previously published as a part-work, it was first published as a book in 1861 by S.O. Beeton Publishing, 161Bouverie Street, London, a firm founded by Samuel Beeton. [4] a b c d e f g h Russell, Polly (2010-12-03). "Mrs Beeton, the first domestic goddess". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08 . Retrieved 2013-09-10.