Modern cookery for private families

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Modern cookery for private families This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook. Title: Modern cookery for private families Author: Eliza Acton Release date: December 23, 2023 [eBook #72482] Language: English Original publication: London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1882 Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72482 Credits: Aaron Adrignola and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MODERN COOKERY FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MODERN COOKERY FOR PRIVATE FAMILIES BY ELIZA ACTON _NEW EDITION_ LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER 1882. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PREFACE. ------- 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 food rendered unwholesome by a bad mode of cooking it, seems a greater evil still. The influence of diet upon health is indeed a subject of far deeper importance than it would usually appear to be considered, if we may judge by the profound indifference with which it is commonly treated. It has occupied, it is true, the earnest attention of many eminent men of science, several of whom have recently