Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

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Turning off the personalised advertising setting won’t stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make the ads you see less relevant or more repetitive. Beeton has been compared on the strength of the book with modern " domestic goddesses" [1] like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. The book begins with general chapters on the duties of the "mistress", the housekeeper, and the cook. with a coloured frontispiece, 31 coloured plates (2 double-page), 128 plates in monochrome and 15 full-page illustrations in the text, some light age-staining as usual, advertisement endpapers lightly browned, neat contemporary signature on frontispiece recto; original cloth boards, neatly rebacked with majority of old morocco backstrip gilt laid down, a very good, firm and unusually clean copy. On 1 October 1861, the instalments were collected into one volume with the title The Book of Household Management, comprising information for the Mistress, Housekeeper, Cook, Kitchen-Maid, Butler, Footman, Coachman, Valet, Upper and Under House-Maids, Lady's-Maid, Maid-of-all-Work, Laundry-Maid, Nurse and Nurse-Maid, Monthly Wet and Sick Nurses, etc.

It was initially serialised in 24 monthly instalments, in her husband Samuel Orchart Beeton's publication The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine; the first instalment appeared in 1859. This masterpiece has been meticulously Reprinted in 2023, utilizing the invaluable guidance of the original edition published many years ago in 1909. The recipes were largely copied from the most successful cookery books of the day, the copying in several cases unacknowledged in the text.Etsy’s 100% renewable electricity commitment includes the electricity used by the data centres that host Etsy.

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.A team of professionals has expertly processed each page, delicately preserving its content without alteration. Beeton's death (in 1865) to 74 chapters and over 2000 pages; [13] the first edition had 44 chapters. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. However, while Lawson and Smith "insist that cooking can be easy, fun and uncomplicated", Beeton "acknowledges the labour and skill required to cook well". 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.