Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1923 New Edition

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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 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] Good Temper should be cultivated by every mistress, as upon it the welfare of the household maybe said to turn; indeed its influence can hardly be over-estimated, as it has the effect of moulding the characters of those around her, and of acting most beneficially on the happiness of the domestic circle. 'Every head of a household should strive to be cheerful, and should never fail to show a deep interest in all that appertains to the well-being of those who claim the protection of her roof. Gentleness, not partial and temporary, but universal and regular, should pervade her conduct; for where such a spirit is habitually manifested, it not only delights her children, but makes her domestics attentive and respectful; her visitors are pleased by it, and their happiness is increased.'

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Cynthia D. Bertelsen (23 August 2010). "Ladies of the Pen and the Cookpot: Isabella Beeton (Part I) – Cynthia D. Bertelsen's Gherkins & Tomatoes". Gherkinstomatoes.com. Archived from the original on 13 March 2016 . Retrieved 13 March 2016. a b c d e f g h Russell, Polly (2010-12-03). "Mrs Beeton, the first domestic goddess". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08 . Retrieved 2013-09-10.

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] 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. Cooper, Artemis (2000). Writing at the Kitchen Table – The Authorized Biography of Elizabeth David. Michael Joseph. p.45. ISBN 0-7181-4224-1. The Queensland Cookery and Poultry Book.*". The Queenslander. Brisbane: National Library of Australia. 5 March 1887. p.391 . Retrieved 17 March 2014. The good housewife was she who sacrificed her own needs to the comfort and happiness of her family and household. Hence Beeton's dismissal of learned or feisty, independent women ('petticoated philosophers' and 'blustering heroines'), who put their own ambition above the needs of others.

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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. Carpenter, Julie (17 November 2011). "Mrs Beeton's recipe of shame". The Daily Express . Retrieved 1 March 2016. I must frankly own, that if I had known, beforehand, that this book would have cost me the labour which it has, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it. What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. [2]

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). Many of the recipes were copied from the most successful cookery books of the day, including Eliza Acton's Modern Cookery for Private Families (first published in 1845), Elizabeth Raffald's The Experienced English Housekeeper (originally published in 1769), Marie-Antoine Carême's Le Pâtissier royal Parisien (1815), Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy (1747), Maria Eliza Rundell's A New System of Domestic Cookery (1806), and the works of Charles Elmé Francatelli (1805–1876). This practice of Mrs. Beeton's has in modern times repeatedly been described as plagiarism. Leith, Prue (14 August 2005). "The original domestic goddess". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 10 September 2013. 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. 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".

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Unlike earlier cookbook authors, such as Hannah Glasse, the book offered an "emphasis on thrift and economy". [1] It also discarded the style of previous writers who employed "daunting paragraph[s] of text with ingredients and method jumbled up together" for what is a recognisably modern "user-friendly formula listing ingredients, method, timings and even the estimated cost of each recipe". [1] [29] Plagiarism [ edit ] a b Stark, Monica (July 2001). "Domesticity for Victorian Dummies". January Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015.

a b Brown, Mark (2006-06-02). "Mrs Beeton couldn't cook but she could copy, reveals historian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08 . Retrieved 2013-09-10. 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 A chapter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus (1899) is entitled, "Concerning Mrs. Beeton"; a character declares: "Mrs. Beeton must have been the finest housekeeper in the world, therefore Mr. Beeton must have been the happiest and most comfortable man". [46] [47] Modern [ edit ] Beeton's half-sister, Lucy Smiles, was later asked about her memories of the book's development. She recalled: a b "Beeton, Mrs Isabella Mary 14 March 1836–6 February 1865". UC Davis Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science. Archived from the original on 10 March 2016 . Retrieved 1 March 2016.Barnes, Julian (5 April 2003). "Mrs Beeton to the rescue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015 . Retrieved 1 March 2016. Thus the mistress is at the core of the household - everything revolves around her, but at the same time, if anything goes wrong, then she is to blame. In this way Mrs Beeton places a great deal of responsibility on a woman's shoulders. In short, the mistress is to be selfless.