She explains that she was thus attempting to make the basics of cookery "intelligible" to any "housewife". [2] The Cookery Book". Western Mail. Perth: National Library of Australia. 25 August 1906. p.38. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2013.

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 "Mrs Beeton (1836–1865)". BBC. 2014. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 15 May 2018. The tomato's) flavour stimulates the appetite and is almost universally approved. The Tomato is a wholesome fruit, and digests easily.... it has been found to contain a particular acid, a volatile oil, a brown, very fragrant extracto-resinous matter, a vegeto-mineral matter, muco-saccharine, some salts, and, in all probability, an alkaloid. The whole plant has a disagreeable odour, and its juice, subjected to the action of the fire, emits a vapour so powerful as to cause vertigo and vomiting. The preface of Wilhelmina Rawson's Queensland Cookery and Poultry Book (1878), published in Australia, observes that: "Mrs. Lance Rawson's Cookery Book... is written entirely for the Colonies, and for the middle classes, and for those people who cannot afford to buy a Mrs. Beeton or a Warne, but who can afford the three shillings for this." [43] [44] Each recipe is structured into a title, a list of ingredients (with quantities, either natural–as a number of eggs or vegetables, a number of slices of ham–or measured in Imperial units–ounces of salt, quarts of water. The actual instructions are headed "Mode", as "Cut up the veal, and put it with the bones and trimmings of poultry". A separate section gives the overall preparation time, and the average cost as, for example, "9d. per quart". [a] Many recipes state in separate brief sections when a recipe is "seasonable and for how many persons it is "sufficient".

Mrs. Beeton's all-about cookery

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. Beeton's half-sister, Lucy Smiles, was later asked about her memories of the book's development. She recalled: Gentleness, not partial and temporary, but universal and regular, should pervade her conduct ...' 'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of an enterprise, so is it with the mistress of a house. Her spirit will be seen through the whole establishment; and just in proportion as she performs her duties intelligently and thoroughly, so will her domestics follow in her path. Of all those acquirements which more particularly belong to the female character there are none which take a higher rank, in our estimation, than such as enter into a knowledge of household duties; for on these are perpetually dependent the happiness, comfort and well-being of a family. 'In this opinion we are borne out by the author of The Vicar of Wakefield who says: "The modest virgin, the prudent wife, and the careful matron, are much more serviceable in life than petticoated philosophers, blustering heroines, or virago queans [sic]. She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than ladies described in romances, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver, or their eyes...". 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] a b Bryson, Bill (2011). At home: a short history of private life (1st Anchor Booksed.). New York: Anchor Books. ISBN 978-0-7679-1939-5.

Broomfield, Andrea (Summer 2008). "Rushing Dinner to the Table: The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine and Industrialization's Effects on Middle-Class Food and Cooking, 1852–1860". Victorian Periodicals Review. 41 (2): 101–23. doi: 10.1353/vpr.0.0032. JSTOR 20084239. S2CID 161900658. 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). 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.I have attempted to give, under the chapters devoted to cookery, an intelligible arrangement to every recipe, a list of the ingredients, a plain statement of the mode of preparing each dish, and a careful estimate of its cost, the number of people for whom it is sufficient, and the time when it is seasonable [2] Leith, Prue (14 August 2005). "The original domestic goddess". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2013. 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] Learning to cook Mrs Beeton goes on to describe the role of the mistress of the house - the key individual in the household. 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.

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. The Queensland Cookery and Poultry Book.*". The Queenslander. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 5 March 1887. p.391 . Retrieved 17 March 2014. 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. The book thus advocates early rising, cleanliness, frugality, good temper, and the wisdom of interviewing servants rather than relying on written references. [23]

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a b Stark, Monica (July 2001). "Domesticity for Victorian Dummies". January Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015.