The Campaign for Domestic Happiness

by Isabella Beeton

Overview

Firmly of the belief that a home should be run as an efficient military campaign, Mrs Beeton, the doyenne of English cookery, offers timeless tips on selecting cuts of meat, throwing a grand party and hosting a dinner, as well as giving suggestions on staff wages and the cost of each recipe.

With such delicious English classics as rabbit pie, carrot soup, baked apple custard, and fresh lemonade - as well as invalid's jelly for those days when stewed eels may be a little too much - this is a wonderful collection of food writing from the matriarch of modern housekeeping.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780141965895
Publisher:	Penguin UK
Publication date:	04/07/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	3 Months

About the Author

Isabella Beeton was born in London in 1836, one of twenty-one brothers and sisters. Between 1859-1861, Beeton wrote articles on cooking and household management for her husband's publications. The collection of these articles became the single volume, The Book of Household Management, a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain that included not only recipes, home-made remedies and how to deal with servants' pay but also smaller yet surprising subjects such as violence, cruelty and death. It remains a classic piece of domestic literature, providing us with invaluable insight into the Victorian household. Beeton died just four years after its publication at the age of twenty-eight.

Table of Contents

1: Preface 2: The Mistress 3: Recipes for Soup 4: Recipes for Fish 5: Recipes for Sauces, Pickles and Gravies 6: Recipes for Beef 7: Recipes for Mutton and Lamb 8: Recipes for Pork 9: Recipes for Veal 9: Recipes for Poultry and Rabbits 10: Recipes for Game 11: Recipes for Vegetables 12: Recipes for Puddings and Pastry 13: Recipes for Creams and Sweet Dishes 14: Recipes for Confectionary, Ices and Dessert Dishes 15: Recipes for Milk, Butter, Cheese and Eggs 16: Recipes for Cakes 17: Recipes for Beverages 18: Recipes for Invalid Cookery