Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery: The "All About It" Books

The Project Gutenberg eBook of Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery 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: Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Every-Day Cookery Author: Mrs. Beeton Release date: October 13, 2015 [eBook #50191] Most recently updated: October 22, 2024 Language: English Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50191 Credits: Produced by Malcolm Farmer, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MRS. BEETON'S DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY COOKERY *** [Transcriber's Note: Bold text is surrounded by =equal signs= and italic text is surrounded by _underscores_.] _MRS. BEETON’S_ DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY COOKERY. _THE “ALL ABOUT IT” BOOKS_ MRS. BEETON’S DICTIONARY OF EVERY-DAY COOKERY. [Illustration] LONDON: WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER, WARWICK HOUSE, PATERNOSTER ROW. LONDON: SAVILL, EDWARDS AND CO., PRINTERS. CHANDOS STREET, COVENT GARDEN. PREFACE. _The reasons for the publication of this Volume—the First of a Series of Practical Manuals which were to be called the “All About It” Books—were thus explained in a Prospectus issued a few months ago, and approved by the late_ Mrs. S. O. BEETON:— MANY wishes have been expressed to the Authoress of the “Book of Household Management” that a volume of Recipes in Cookery should be written which could be sold at a price somewhere between the seven-and-sixpenny “Household Management” and the Shilling Cookery Book. Accordingly Mrs. BEETON has prepared a Collection of Recipes, and of other Practical Information concerning the Dressing and Serving of Family Fare, which, when completed, will be published, in serviceable binding, at the price of Three Shillings and Sixpence. As Mistress, Cook, and Critic have declared that the details in Mrs. BEETON’S larger work are _so easy to understand_,