Food History

New System of Domestic Cookery

by Maria Eliza Rundell

Maria Rundell wrote it for her married daughters and gave it to the publisher John Murray, and from 1806 it sold in hundreds of thousands, more than any other English cookery book of its day. It is for the mistress of a middle-class house who means to run it well and spend carefully. It went on being revised for half a century.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 5 hr 20 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #69519. In the public domain in the United States.