Mrs Beeton's Household Management

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Wordsworth Editions, 2006 - 1109 páginas
A classic of domestic literature, Isabella Beeton's Book of Household Management is both an entertaining curiosity and an important social document, providing an invaluable insight into the day-to-day workings of a Victorian household. Encyclopaedic in its range, the book contains 2,751 entries covering (besides its countless recipes) advice on childbirth, fashion, home remedies, animal husbandry and the management of servants, and even dealing with the sensitive subjects of violence, cruelty, illness and death, and contentious issues still current, such as factory farming. Born in 1836, the eldest of twenty-one children, Isabella's upbringing was far from conventional and she was never the stately matron of our imaginings. She was already a working journalist when at the age of twenty-one she began to write her epic work in the form of magazine supplements; these were published in the famous single volume of 1861. When she died at only twenty-eight her book had already met with phenomenal success and to this day it remains legendary the world over.

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The Mistress
1
The Housekeeper
21
Arrangement and Economy of the Kitchen
25
Introduction to Cookery
39
Soups
47
Recipes for Soups
54
Fish
102
Recipes for Fish
112
General Observations on Vegetables
522
Recipes for Vegetables
530
General Observations on Puddings and Pastry
582
General Observations on Creams Jellies Soufflés Omelets and Sweet Dishes
663
Recipes for Creams Jellies Soufflés Omelets and Sweet Dishes
665
General Observations on Preserves Confectionary Ices and Desert Dishes
715
Recipes for Preserves Confectionary Ices and Desert Dishes
722
General Observations on Milk Butter Cheese and Eggs
759

Sauces Pickles Gravies and Forcemeats
171
Recipes for Sauces Pickles Gravies and Forcemeats
173
Various Modes of Cooking Meat
244
Quadrupeds
255
Recipes for Beef
263
General Observations on Sheep and Lambs
301
Recipes for Mutton and Lamb
312
General Observations on the Common Hog
340
Recipes for Pork
351
General Observations on the Calf
379
Recipes for Veal
383
General Observations on Birds
412
Recipes for Poultry
418
General Observations on Game
487
Recipes for Game
493
Recipes for Milk Butter Cheese and Eggs
764
General Observations on Bread Biscuits and Cakes
781
Recipes for Bread Biscuits and Cakes
789
General Observations on Beverages
818
Recipes for Beverages
822
Invalid Cookery
838
Recipes for Invalid Cookery
840
Dinners and Dining
849
Domestic Servants
916
The Rearing Management and Diseases of Infancy and Childhood
985
The Doctor
1020
Legal memoranda
1056
Index of Numbered Paragraphs
1071
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