Project Gutenberg 2003-11-01 Public domain in the USA. 1265 Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) 1836 1865 Beeton, Isabella Mary Mayson Mayson, Isabella Mary The Book of Household Management Reading ease score: 67.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Sandra Brown, and Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders "The Book of Household Management" by Mrs. Beeton is a comprehensive guidebook originally published in the mid-19th century. This work caters to a wide audience, including mistresses, housekeepers, cooks, and various domestic staff, aiming to equip them with essential skills for efficient household management, cooking, and domestic duties. At the start of the book, Mrs. Beeton expresses her motivation to produce this exhaustive manual by highlighting the discomfort and strife caused by poor household management. She outlines the structure of the book, which includes sections on cookery, household organization, and the responsibilities of various servants. The preface indicates that it contains not only recipes but also insights into the natural history of food, budgeting for meals, and even sections on medical advice and legal matters related to household management. This opening sets the tone for a practical and informative resource aimed at enhancing domestic life and family well-being. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Home economics Cooking, English TX Text Technology Cookbooks and Cooking Browsing: Cooking & Drinking Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: How To... 3518097 3517943 2024-10-05T04:03:05.097016 2023-10-05T05:07:11.422952 text/html text/html 3518090 3517936 2024-10-05T04:03:06.027049 2023-10-05T05:07:12.237955 text/html text/html 1247874 2024-10-05T04:04:26.579141 application/epub+zip 1297246 2024-10-05T04:03:31.385831 application/epub+zip 1283453 2024-10-05T04:03:19.137957 application/epub+zip 2383957 2024-10-05T04:04:55.603884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2161420 2024-10-05T04:04:04.266246 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 2123394 2022-09-05T07:07:45.042420 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 3116108 3116029 2024-10-05T04:03:02.789985 2023-10-05T05:07:09.300942 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 3116523 2020-12-19T15:46:11 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 1052655 2020-12-19T15:46:11 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 3116627 2020-12-19T15:46:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 1051916 2020-12-19T15:46:11 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 21562 2024-10-05T04:04:55.815901 application/rdf+xml 14881 2024-10-05T04:03:19.718917 image/jpeg 3596 2024-10-05T04:03:19.433912 image/jpeg 1201819 2024-10-05T04:03:06.271973 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia