Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

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Driver, Christopher (1983). The British at Table 1940–1980. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-2582-0. Richardson, Sarah (2013). The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-96493-1. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 2 November 2007 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. The text then swiftly passes to a description of simple measures like a table-spoonful, and the duties of servants. [25]

Koh, Gavin (26 September 2009). "Medical Classics; The Book of Household Management". The BMJ. 339 (7723): 755. doi: 10.1136/bmj.b3866. JSTOR 25672776. S2CID 72911468. Russell, Polly (3 December 2010). "Mrs Beeton, the first domestic goddess". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.The whole rest of the book is taken up with instructions for cooking, with an introduction in each chapter to the type of food it describes. The first of these, on soups, begins "Lean, juicy beef, mutton, and veal form the basis of all good soups; therefore it is advisable to procure those pieces which afford the richest succulence, and such as are fresh-killed." 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. This is followed in early editions by a separate chapter of recipes for soups of different kinds. [26] Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson), universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers. Three years after Benjamin's death Elizabeth married Henry Dorling, a widower with four children. Henry was the Clerk of Epsom Racecourse, and had been granted residence within the racecourse grounds. The family, including Elizabeth's mother, moved to Surrey [7] and over the next twenty years Henry and Elizabeth had a further thirteen children. Isabella was instrumental in her siblings' upbringing, and collectively referred to them as a "living cargo of children". [8] [9] [d] The experience gave her much insight and experience in how to manage a family and its household. [12] Hughes, Kathryn. "Mrs Beeton and the Art of Household Management". British Library. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016 . Retrieved 27 November 2015. a b Brown, Mark (2 June 2006). "Mrs Beeton couldn't cook but she could copy, reveals historian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.

The writer Nancy Spain, in her biography of Beeton, put the month of birth as September, [49] while Freeman puts the birth in the autumn. [30] The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queens. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue [23] [24]

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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." It is granted that "the fruits of the earth, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, and the fish of the sea, are still the only food of mankind", but that: [25] Carpenter, Julie (17 November 2011). "Mrs Beeton's recipe of shame". The Daily Express . Retrieved 1 March 2016. The Oxford English Dictionary recognised that, by the 1890s, Beeton's name "was adopted as a term for an authority on all things domestic and culinary". [45] The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science observed that "it was probably found in more homes than any other cookery book, and [was probably] the most often consulted, in the years 1875 to 1914". [8] The Secret Life of Mrs Beeton". Genome (Radio Times 1923–2009). BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015.

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] Nichols, Martha (June 2000). "Home is Where the Dirt is". The Women's Review of Books. 17 (9): 9–11. doi: 10.2307/4023454. JSTOR 4023454. Hughes, Kathryn (2006). The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. London: HarperCollins Publishers. ISBN 978-0-7524-6122-9. Hughes, Kathryn (2006). The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. HarperCollins. pp.198–201, 206–10. ISBN 978-0-7524-6122-9. 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]Beetham, Margaret (2012). "Beeton, Isabella Mary (1836–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/37172 . Retrieved 3 November 2015. {{ cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default ( link) (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) 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]

Mrs, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016 . Retrieved 1 December 2015. (subscription required) Barnes, Julian (3 April 2003). "Mrs Beeton to the rescue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015.

Mayson became a journalist for the Daily Mail; he was knighted for his work at the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War. The Beetons' elder son, Orchart, went on to a career in the army; both died in 1947. [88] The first of Mrs Beeton's "part-issues, spin-offs, and extracts" which most influenced English cooking habits 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 Shapiro, Laura (28 May 2006). " 'The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton,' by Kathryn Hughes: Domestic Goddess". New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015.