Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1923 New Edition

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Robin Wensley, a professor of strategic management, believes that Beeton's advice and guidance on household management can also be applied to business management, and her lessons on the subject have stood the test of time better than some of her advice on cooking or etiquette.

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Beeton's All-about cookery : with over 2,000 practical recipes, and sections on labour-saving, household work, servants' duties, laundry work, marketing, renovations, etc. For the 1906 edition of the book, The Illustrated London News 's reviewer considered the work "a formidable body of domestic doctrine", and thought that "the book is almost of the first magnitude". With over 2,000 practical Recipes and Sections on Labour-Saving, Carving and Trussing, Household Work, The Art of 'Using-Up', Servants' Duties, Laundry Work [and many other topics]. 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.His family had lived in Milk Street at the same time as the Maysons—Samuel's father still ran the Dolphin Tavern there—and Samuel's sisters had also attended the same Heidelberg school as Isabella. Contains [viii] [iv] 444 [ii] printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations to most pages and colour plates. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. j] In March 1863 Beeton found that she was pregnant again, and in April the couple moved to a house in Greenhithe, Kent; their son, who they named Orchart, was born on New Year's Eve 1863.

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Isabella went to live with her recently widowed paternal grandfather in Great Orton, Cumberland, though she was back with her mother within the next two years. The historian Sarah Freeman, in her biography of Beeton, considers that the cause of death was "probably fever, perhaps cholera". Henry was the Clerk of Epsom Racecourse, and had been granted residence within the racecourse grounds. Christopher Driver, the journalist and food critic, suggests that the "relative stagnation and want of refinement in the indigenous cooking of Britain between 1880 and 1930" may instead be explained by the "progressive debasement under successive editors, revises and enlargers". The complete version of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, consisting of the 24 collected monthly instalments, was published on 1 October 1861; [66] [67] [i] it became one of the major publishing events of the nineteenth century.Dickson Wright considers Beeton to be a "fascinating source of information" from a social history viewpoint, [100] and Aylett and Ordish consider the work to be "the best and most reliable guide for the scholar to the domestic history of the mid-Victorian era". As early as 1857 the Beetons had considered using the magazine columns as the basis of a book of collected recipes and homecare advice, Hughes believes, [51] and in November 1859 they launched a series of 48-page monthly supplements with The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine. His father, unhappy with the implication—condoms tended to only be used by prostitutes' clients—sent his son away for an apprenticeship with the merchant navy. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the term Mrs Beeton became used as a generic name for "an authority on cooking and domestic subjects" as early as 1891, [102] [103] and Beetham opines that "'Mrs.