About the Book
Isabella Beeton died in 1865 at just twenty-eight, but 'Mrs. Beeton' became the most trusted name a British kitchen could invoke. All About Cookery distilled her publisher's great Household Management into a working dictionary: over a thousand recipes, A to Z, for households that needed dinner more than they needed reading.
This is the enlarged Ward Lock edition of 1907, 'thoroughly brought up to date' — with menus for every month, ball suppers and high teas filed neatly into the alphabet, and directions for carving whatever you roast.
Its signature is the price: nearly every recipe states its AVERAGE COST in shillings and pence. This site's Shilling Kitchen lets you browse the book the way its first readers actually used it — by what the housekeeping purse could bear.