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Mrs Beeton's Cookery Collection #3
Mrs. Beeton's Complete Book of Puddings & Desserts
Tried and tested recipes, reliable and easy to use.
Recipes for all occasions from everyday family puddings to spectacular dinner party desserts.
Includes petits fours, biscuits and fancies.
Sauces and butters to serve as accompaniments.
Mrs. Beeton's expert hints and tips ensure success every time.
(From the back cover)
Recipes for all occasions from everyday family puddings to spectacular dinner party desserts.
Includes petits fours, biscuits and fancies.
Sauces and butters to serve as accompaniments.
Mrs. Beeton's expert hints and tips ensure success every time.
(From the back cover)
336 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1990
About the author
Isabella Beeton
338 books32 followersIsabella 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.
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.
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December 20, 2022
My Brother decided he wanted to cook some of the old fashioned puddings we used to have when he was a child, my gran used to cook things like Sussex pond pudding, treacle suet puddings etc so this cook book should help him. I look forward to eating some of them. Need to diet before visiting him. Mind you we’ll need these puddings to keep us warm when we can’t heat our homes, going back to the old days before central heating.
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