Modern cookery, in all its branches; reduced to a system of easy practice / [Eliza Acton].

  • Acton, Eliza, 1799-1859
Date:
1849
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Credit: Modern cookery, in all its branches; reduced to a system of easy practice / [Eliza Acton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a satisfactory result of her labours, unless the directions, which have cost her so much toil, and which, to prevent the chance of failure, have, in many instances, been repeated almost to tediousness, be implicitly followed by the learner: she cannot answer for their success if they he not strictly adhered to, their very exactness rendering any deviation from them always likely to endanger it. Attention to this point is the more strongly urged, because the object of the writer, in taking the infinite pains of having each separate receipt of a series of upwards of eleven hundred worked through before it was inserted in the volume, that she might assure herself of its entire correct- ness and real practical utility, and safely guarantee them to others, must be at once defeated if her instructions be departed from. The book has received, since it was issued to the public, numberless flattering and kindly testimonies of approval, both through the medium of the ^iress, and through various private channels; but none which have afforded the authoress more heart-felt pleasure—though all have given her much—than the cordial assurances of many young housekeepers that it has realized to them all that it professes, and proved a most valuable assistant in their households. May it continue so to fulfil her intention and her wishes. July, 1846.