Mrs Beeton's Book of Cookery and Household Management.

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Green cloth, front hinge tender and with slight water damage slightly affecting first gathering at spine end. Therefore my advice would be to compile a book from recipes from a Variety of the Best Books published on Cookery and Heaven knows there is a great variety for you to choose from. The present work is, we believe, the third edition with this latter title and the last before Hermann Senn's major revision of 1923. Beeton's Household Management: A Complete Cookery Book With Sections on Household Work, Servants' Duties, Labour-Saving, Laundry Work, Etiquette, Marketing, Etc.

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]. on red illustarted but somehwat worn cloth small split to spine cover a new and enlarged edition circa 1896 + 516 columns, 1000 recipes and instructions 350 wood engarvings and coloured plates. Chapters 60 to 68 guide on matters from trussing poultry to the definitions of culinary terms, arranging meals, decorating the table, making menus, and the duties of domestic servants.I didn’t realise this was almost A5 in size with the tiniest writing I couldn’t read, even with my specs on!

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. Gilt titles + circular vignettes front alslo black oval and ribbon decoration, but difficult to see! The book was an immediate best-seller, selling 60,000 copies in its first year [5] [6] and totalling nearly two million by 1868. 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. Previously published in parts, it initially and briefly bore the title Beeton's Book of Household Management, as one of the series of guidebooks published by her husband, Samuel Beeton.and the more recently introduced Indian fare, such as the "Bengal recipe for making mango chutney" on p.