Modern cookery for private families

Acton, Eliza · 1859

LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER 1882. It cannot be denied that an improved system of practical domestic cookery, and a better knowledge of its first principles, are still much needed in this country; where, from ignorance, or from mismanagement in their preparation, the daily waste of excellent provisions almost exceeds belief. This waste is in itself a very serious evil where so large a portion of the community often procure—as they do in England—with painful difficulty, and with the heaviest labour, even sufficient bread to sustain existence; but the amount of _positive disease_ which is caused amongst us by improper food, or by…

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