“Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ... Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.” ShouldKindEconomyVirtueWasteIncomeAll KindsHouseholdMeannessDegeneratesThriftRepressedFrugality Author:Isabella Beeton
“The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.” FoodWallDependsRegardPreparationKitchenHouseholdWoeLaboratory Author:Isabella Beeton
“What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.” MenWayFirstsSufferingSourceMen And WomenMovedDinnerInstanceHouseholdDiscomfortDiscontentHousewifeMismanagement Author:Isabella Beeton
