Modern Cookery for Private Families

Name: Modern Cookery for Private Families
Author: Eliza Acton

Eliza Acton was a poet before she was a cook, and her book, first published in 1845 and revised over the years after, set a pattern later books followed: a list of the ingredients and the time it takes after every recipe. Isabella Beeton borrowed from it freely. Her prose is plain, exact and occasionally sharp.
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Reading time: About 20 hr 50 min
Where to find it: On the Food History shelves
Edition: Project Gutenberg, eBook #72482. In the public domain in the United States.

Modern Cookery for Private Families

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