Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery

The most trusted name in the Victorian kitchen, arranged A to Z: over a thousand recipes with the price of every dish worked out to the penny — including what to serve at a ball supper, and how to carve what you serve.

The Shilling Kitchen

Mrs. Beeton costed nearly every dish to the penny. Pick a budget and see what 1907 could put on the table for it — cheapest first, every figure the book’s own.

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