BEETON, Mrs Isabella.

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The Englishwoman's Cookery-Book. First edition of the first of Beeton's "cookery" books; the affordable spin-offs from her Book of Household Management (1861). Although the Book of Household Management is largely remembered as Beeton's legacy it was primarily these cheaper "part-issues, spin-offs, and extracts" which most influenced English cooking habits (Beetham, p. 395). This copy is in uncommonly attractive condition.The present work, sometimes referred to as Mrs Beeton's Shilling Cookery Book, appeared in several editions into the 1880s. In 1890 it was reissued under the title Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book and Household Guide, later shortened to Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book. The work contains recipes included in the Book of Household Management, many of which were derived from recipes printed in the Beeton's tuppenny Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, which Samuel Beeton had launched in 1852, and Isabella edited from their marriage in 1857. Many of the recipes reflect the affordable cost of this work, including a "Half-pay Pudding" on p. 164, the corner of which has been previously folded to mark the page. "Beeton herself apparently believed that one of the most important contributions of her work to improving English cooking was the attention she gave to new and enticing ways of dishing up the left-over meat from the previous day" (ibid., p. 396). The work also demonstrates the combination in everyday cooking of the "French-influenced cookery found in restaurants, at court, and

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