Containing: New and valuable recipes including instructions for foreign and vegetarian cookery, New French and English menus for every month in the year, New menus for breakfast, luncheon, tea, supper and picnics, New tables of housekeeping accounts and household expenditure, With much new and valuable information with regard to modes of cooking, science of cookery and household arrangements. The definitive 'Mrs Beeton' cookbook was published in the second half of the 19th century. This gorgeous edition is the perfect Mother's Day gift or anyone interested in history, cooking, housekeeping and Victorian households. This edition is a replicar of the original 1893 edition, with exquisite textured cover and gold foil stamping. This lovely book also includes eight colour plates, including gatefold of dinner table laid for 12, twenty-six full colour illustrations and a dictionary of cookery, A-Z.