Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Book and Household Guide

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The writer Nancy Spain, in her biography of Beeton, put the month of birth as September, [49] while Freeman puts the birth in the autumn. [30] a b Brown, Mark (2006-06-02). "Mrs Beeton couldn't cook but she could copy, reveals historian". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2015-12-08 . Retrieved 2013-09-10. Hughes, Kathryn (2006). The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. HarperCollins. pp.198–201, 206–10. ISBN 978-0-7524-6122-9. Paxman, Jeremy (2009). The Victorians: Britain Through the Paintings of the Age. London: BBC Books. ISBN 978-1-84607-743-2. The book thus advocates early rising, cleanliness, frugality, good temper, and the wisdom of interviewing servants rather than relying on written references. [23]

The whole rest of the book is taken up with instructions for cooking, with an introduction in each chapter to the type of food it describes. The first of these, on soups, begins "Lean, juicy beef, mutton, and veal form the basis of all good soups; therefore it is advisable to procure those pieces which afford the richest succulence, and such as are fresh-killed." The account of how to make soup consists of a single essay, divided into general advice and numbered steps for making any kind of (meat-based) soup. This is followed in early editions by a separate chapter of recipes for soups of different kinds. [26] Mrs, n.1". Oxford English Dictionary. Archived from the original on 5 January 2016 . Retrieved 1 December 2015. (subscription required) Shapiro, Laura (28 May 2006). " 'The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton,' by Kathryn Hughes: Domestic Goddess". New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. Thomas, Kate (2008). "Arthur Conan Doyle and Isabella Beeton". Victorian Literature and Culture. 36 (2): 375–90. doi: 10.1017/S1060150308080248. JSTOR 40347195. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 7 September 2020.

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The first of Mrs Beeton's "part-issues, spin-offs, and extracts" which most influenced English cooking habits The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine". British Library. Archived from the original on 7 January 2016 . Retrieved 27 November 2015.

Beeton was buried at West Norwood Cemetery on 11 February. [9] [l] When The Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery was published in the same year, Samuel added a tribute to his wife at the end: The tomato's) flavour stimulates the appetite and is almost universally approved. The Tomato is a wholesome fruit, and digests easily.... it has been found to contain a particular acid, a volatile oil, a brown, very fragrant extracto-resinous matter, a vegeto-mineral matter, muco-saccharine, some salts, and, in all probability, an alkaloid. The whole plant has a disagreeable odour, and its juice, subjected to the action of the fire, emits a vapour so powerful as to cause vertigo and vomiting. Sitwell, William (2012-04-18). "What Mrs. Beeton did to us". The Spectator. Archived from the original on 2013-12-29 . Retrieved 2013-09-10.

a b "Isabella Beeton". Orion Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 1 December 2015. The Oxford English Dictionary recognised that, by the 1890s, Beeton's name "was adopted as a term for an authority on all things domestic and culinary". [45] The Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science observed that "it was probably found in more homes than any other cookery book, and [was probably] the most often consulted, in the years 1875 to 1914". [8] Following the radio broadcast of Meet Mrs. Beeton, a 1934 comedy in which Samuel was portrayed in an unflattering light, [m] and Mrs Beeton, a 1937 documentary, [n] Mayston Beeton worked with H. Montgomery Hyde to produce the biography Mr and Mrs Beeton, although completion and publication were delayed until 1951. In the meantime Nancy Spain published Mrs Beeton and her Husband in 1948, updated and retitled in 1956 to The Beeton Story. In the new edition Spain hinted at, but did not elucidate upon, on the possibility that Samuel contracted syphilis. Several other biographies followed, including from the historian Sarah Freeman, who wrote Isabella and Sam in 1977; Nown's Mrs Beeton: 150 Years of Cookery and Household Management, published on the 150th anniversary of Beeton's birthday, and Hughes's The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton, published in 2006. [37] [108] Beeton was ignored by the Dictionary of National Biography for many years: while Acton was included in the first published volume of 1885, Beeton did not have an entry until 1993. [109]