Mrs Beeton's book of household management / Mrs Beeton ; edited with an introduction and notes by Nicola Humble.

"A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread classics. Written when its author was only 22, it offered highly authoritative advice on subjects as diverse as fashion, child-care, animal husbandry, poisons, and the management of servants. To the modern reader expecting stuffy moralizing and watery vegetables, Beeton's book is a revelation: it ranges widely across the foods of Europe and beyond, actively embracing new food stuffs and techniques, mixing domestic advice with discussions of science, religion, class, industrialism, and gender roles. Alternately fashionable and frugal, anxious and blusteringly self-confident, Household Management highlights the concerns of the ever-expanding Victorian middle class at a key moment in its history." "This abridged edition does justice to its high status as a cookery book, while also suggesting ways of approaching this massive, hybrid text as a significant document of social and cultural history."--Jacket

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Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Isabella Beeton; MRS BEETON'S BOOK OF HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT; I. The Mistress; II. The Housekeeper; III. Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen; IV. Introduction to Cookery; V. General Directions for Making Soups; VI. Recipes; VII. The Natural History of Fishes; VIII. Recipes; IX. Sauces, Pickles, Gravies, and Forcemeats: General Remarks; X. Recipes; XI. Various Modes of Cooking Meat: General Remarks; XII. General Observations on Quadrupeds; XIII. Recipes; XIV. General Observations on the Sheep and Lamb

XV. RecipesXVI. General Observations on the Common Hog; XVII. Recipes; XVIII. General Observations on the Calf; XIX. Recipes; XX. General Observations on Birds; XXI. Recipes; XXII. General Observations on Game; XXIII. Recipes; XXIV. General Observations on Vegetables; XXV. Recipes; XXVI. General Observations on Puddings and Pastry; XXVII. Recipes; XXVIII. General Observations on Creams, Jellies, Soufflés, Omelets, and Sweet Dishes; XXIX. Recipes; XXX. General Observations on Preserves, Confectionary, Ices, and Dessert Dishes; XXXI. Recipes

XXXII. General Observations on Milk, Butter, Cheese, and EggsXXXIII. Recipes; XXXIV. General Observations on Bread, Biscuits, and Cakes; XXXV. Recipes; XXXVI. General Observations on Beverages; XXXVII. Recipes; XXXVIII. Invalid Cookery; XXXIX. Recipes; XL. Dinners and Dining; XLI. Domestic Servants; XLII. The Rearing and Management of Children, and Diseases of Infancy and Childhood; XLIII. The Doctor; XLIV. Legal Memoranda; Explanatory Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

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