THE Best of Mrs Beeton's Cakes and Baking

by Isabella Beeton

From simple and economical recipes such as gingerbread, banana cake and breads for everyday filling-up to extravagant gateaux oozing with fruit and cream, from basic breads to muffins and crumpets, this selection of international classics provides the modern cook with everything he or she needs to provide delicious freshly-baked goods for all occasions. With helpful tips, serving ideas and the basic recipes you need to allow your own culinary creativity to take flight, this bakery bible deserves a place in every kitchen. There are all the much-loved favourites that provide the basis of British bakery, plus international recipes and items for special occasions, such as hot cross buns and Twelfth Night cake. The mouth-watering treats inside -Black Forest Gateau -Chelsea Buns -English Muffins -Sacher Torte -Pork Pies -Treacle Tart -Pavlova -Pineapple Upside-down Cake -Hot Cross Buns -Shortbread Isabella Mary Beeton was born in London is 1836, where she grew up in a household of twenty-one children. It took Isabella four years to compile her masterwork, publishing Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in 1861. It contains an enormous amount of information to help people live, in Isabella Beeton's own words, 'economically, tastefully and well'. Her style, imparting information as clearly and simply as possible, was hugely influential. The book sold 60,000 copies in its first year, but Isabella Beeton died four years later, in 1865, aged just twenty-eight. The enduring popularity of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is testament to the quality of her advice. Albion Press is an imprint of Endeavour Press, the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now.

Genres: Cooking, Reference, Cookbooks

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

About the author

Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson), universally known as Mrs Beeton, was the English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management, and is one of the most famous cookery writers.

Popularly known as "Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management", it was a guide to running a Victorian household, with advice on fashion, childcare, animal husbandry, poisons, the management of servants, science, religion, and industrialism.

Of the 1,112 pages, over 900 contained recipes, such that another popular name for the volume is "Mrs Beeton's Cookbook". Most of the recipes were illustrated with coloured engravings, and it was the first book to show recipes in a format that is still used today. It is said that many of the recipes were actually plagiarised from earlier writers (including Eliza Acton), but the Beetons never claimed that the book's contents were original. It was intended as a guide of reliable information for the aspirant middle classes. Mrs Beeton is perhaps described better as its compiler and editor than as its author, many of the passages clearly being not her own words.

Reviews

[Sophie Crane · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great selection of recipes - would recommend. As a novice baker it contains everything I could wish for and more.

[Elaine Brophy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best and only baking book you need

Brilliant every thing you need to be a better baker highly recommend for beginners and experienced bakers i absolutely love this bible of bakeiny

[Eileen Zhou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic.😁

This is one of my best buys from amazon. Everything is simply and straightforward. Enough ingredients and all time classics. Sweet and savoury recipes. At 0.99p it's a steal. Thank you.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hard to use (the printing is small and the book doesn't open wide). The recipes make quite small batches and the conversions use oz rather than cups...which is a bit inconvenient. I bought it because it is good old fashioned British baking. Yay.