2006-07-21 01:47:05 · 9 answers · asked by deb71116 1 in Food & Drink ➔ Cooking & Recipes
Mrs Beeton's cookery books are well known in the UK; however she died in 1865 aged 28, so the 1901 presumably is a publication date rather than the date she wrote it
Isabella Mary Mayson was born in pre-Victorian London on 12 March 1836. The most notable (and uncontrollable) element in her young life was her destiny to be the first born of twenty one brothers and sisters!
Isabella married into the Beeton family in 1856, and proudly carried their name from relative obscurity to fame. Her husband was Samuel Orchart Beeton, and they went on to have nine children.
Isabella, with Samuel Orchart's help, created a book called Beeton's Book of Household Management. No other work had been so complete and so well-written in its straight forward, common-sense approach to the total running of the home and was exactly what was needed at the time of the rapidly increasing Victorian middle class. The cookery section took up most of the space in the book and it was the exceptional layout of the easy to follow recipes that made the cookery section - and therefore the book - famous and was destined to be her greatest achievement.
2006-07-21 01:56:33 · answer #1 · answered by Perkins 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The original was a bestseller when first published in 1861. Your copy has little of the original text. Mrs Beeton's recipe for jugged hare started with 'first catch your hare'.
2006-07-21 08:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by felineroche 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I found a copy in a second hand book shop!
2006-07-21 08:55:29 · answer #3 · answered by Nick B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I remember my grandma having one, and i got some recipes out of it. Very good old fashioned proper home bakes.
2006-07-21 08:50:52 · answer #4 · answered by Mas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I have some of her books, well reprints. You get a real sense of charactor when you read her books.
2006-07-21 16:45:56 · answer #5 · answered by Nneave 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes i have seen it many years ago. my grandmother had one and i remember her showing me the date on it...unfortunately i don't know what happened to it...
2006-07-21 08:52:23 · answer #6 · answered by andy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes my mum had 1 when i was little.......it is most def best coookerybook
2006-07-21 21:44:51 · answer #7 · answered by ickle me 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah
2006-07-21 08:50:47 · answer #8 · answered by ghm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes!
I have a copy....
2006-07-21 08:50:41 · answer #9 · answered by Mr_Moonlight 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋