Eliza Acton Quotes

“Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.”

Made Home Wish Food Skills Degrees Trade Conviction Bread Superiors Labour Baking Wholesomeness

Book:Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

Source: Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

“It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.”

Needs Book Facts Half Duty Cooks Cookery Cookery Books

Book:Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

Source: Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained

“I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.”

Soul Thee Breathing Tone Me Alone Mute Famous Love Flutes

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.”

May Economy Accounts Ignorant Meals Articles Truest Disdain Converting Cookery Good Cook Wholesomeness

Book:Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...

Source: Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...

“The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Made Differences Taste Skills Prove Cooking Prepared Cooks Arrangements Good And Bad Sauce Discredit Cookery

Author:Eliza Acton

“Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.”

Knows Should Fashion Importance Serving Customs Vegetables Crisps Disregarded

Book:Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness

Source: Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness

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