Mrs Beeton

The Herald Range

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 15, 2015February 15, 2015

Food by LoisFebruary 6, 2015

Apricots, cherries, currants and berries, plums and gages and melon

apricots white cherries, black cherries white currents black currents, red currents melon strawberries, raspberries black diamond plums greengages, Victoria plums Mrs Beeton’s 1912 edition had colour and black and white plates; this selection of fruit is rather charming, but I can’t find out who the illustrator was. I hadn’t heard of black diamond plums, but […]

Kitchen gadgets

Food by LoisJanuary 28, 2015

Books by LoisJanuary 28, 2015January 27, 2015

Coloured and photographic plates…

Look at the lovely illustration for my 1912 edition of Mrs Beeton; scallops, red mullet, turbot, cod steak, fried sole, mayonnaise of salmon, salmon boiled, brown trout and smelts…

Red herring in the common English mode

Food by LoisJanuary 27, 2015January 26, 2015

Making curry the Victorian way

Food by LoisJanuary 17, 2015

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 13, 2015January 13, 2015

Good cooks always use…

Another advert from Mrs Beeton, the 1912 edition, and if you went shopping today you could still buy Robinson’s barley products, squashes and drinks… and many other ‘new’ lines too! Atora still makes suet, and in fact I have a vegetarian ‘suet’ packet in my cupboard for when I make puddings… not that I do very often, […]

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 11, 2015

Radio-Active Ærated Waters – for the treatment of gout, rheumatism and nervous afflicitons

Like many people I have several copies of Mrs Beeton; I have my own copy, acquired when I was cooking for myself, I have my mum’s well-used copy which I inherited and I have this old copy from 1912. This is the ‘updated’ version, the original was published in the 1850’s. I’m fascinated by the adverts there […]