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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management

The original edition of 1869 reproduced on CD
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The original No edition since has been the same So if you would like to try Mrs Beeton's original recipes, then this is the one.

Everyone has heard of it. But this edition is very special indeed. Mrs Beeton died in 1865, four years before this second edition of her famous book was published. Subsequent editions were published by Ward Lock, as her husband sold the rights to the book. But what happened is that the new publishers removed huge sections of the original recipes, and proudly(!) announced that all of those left in had been tested and tried and altered to "improve" them! In other words, did not contain Mrs. Beeton's originals. Also, the new publishers added more and different sections on household management (and deleted other chapters), and therefore the next edition in 1873 was a totally different book. Our edition, scanned from the original 1869 book, contains well over a thousand pages, and has some lovely colour plates, quite unusual for a book of this date. It is an absolute gem, and we have really gone to town with extensive bookmarks in Abobe Acrobat so that you can find your way around the book and read it easily on any computer.

A screen shot. Turn from page to page, or use the bookmarks to go direct to a section on a particular topic. Easy.

The book is liberally illustrated throughout, and you are sure to find the section on kitchen utensils absolutely fascinating.

1. The Mistress
2. The Housekeeper
3. Arrangement and Economy of the kitchen
4. Introduction to Cookery
5. General Directions for Making Soups
6. Recipes for Soups
7. The natural history of Fishes
8. Recipes for cooking Fish
9. Sauces, Pickles, Gravies and Forcemeats – General Remarks
10. Recipes for making Sauces, Pickles, Gravies and Forcemeats
11. Various modes of Cooking Meats
12. General observations on Quadrupeds: Oxen etc
13. Recipes for cooking Beef
14. General observations on the Sheep and Lamb
15. Recipes for cooking Mutton and Lamb
16. General observations on the Common Hog
17. Recipes for cooking Pork
18. General observations on the Calf
19. Recipes for cooking Veal
20. General observations on Birds
21. Recipes for cooking Poultry
22. General observations on Game
23. Recipes for cooking Game
24. General observations on Vegetables
25. Recipes for cooking Vegetables
26. General observations on Puddings and Pastry
27. Recipes for making Puddings and Pastry
28. General observations on Creams, Jellies, Souffles, Omelets and Sweet Dishes
29. Recipes for making Creams, Jellies etc
30. General observations on Preserves, Confectionery, Ices and Dessert Dishes
31. Recipes for making Confectionery
32. Ices – observations on Freezing Apparatus
33. Recipes for making Ices etc.
34. Recipes for cooking Cheese, Eggs etc
35. General Observations on Bread, Biscuits and Cakes
36. Recipes for making Bread, biscuits etc
37. General Observations on Beverages
38. Recipes for making Beverages
39. Invalid cookery
40. Recipes for Invalid Dishes
41. Dinners and Dining
42. Domestic Servants
43. The rearing and management of children and diseases of infancy and childhood
44. The Doctor
45. Legal Memoranda

All editions of Mrs Beeton's book after this one of 1869 do not contain her original recipes - this one is a real taste of the past.

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