Author: Beeton, Isabella.
Title: Mrs Beeton's Family Cookery.
Description: London Ward Lock & Co, 1963. Reprint ed. Hardback large thick octavo, no jacket, good condition, pictorial cloth covers, colour & black & white plates, black & white drawings, top edge coloured (little faded), cover corners bumped, spine ends little chipped, edges lightly foxed, pages lightly toned (some pages light foxed patches), minimal glue residue front cover, inner hinge slightly split (pages firm), some edgewear, old price front endpaper crossed out with biro. Heavy (1.4 Kg), and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. 832 pp. This edition of Mrs Beeton's famous historic cookbook covers nutrition, the kitchen, kitchen craft, carving - and recipes for soups, fish, meat, lamb, mutton, pork, veal, poultry, vegetables, salads, baking, sweets, as well as a section on vegetarian cooking. The many plates make this a very useful cookbook, and of interest to all who wants to learn to make these early meals.

Keywords: cooking, homes, domestic duties, history, britain


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