I was so pleased when looking for a long lost recipe earlier today, to find this website Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management I grew up with this book because it was my Mum's (who is a good cook BTW) cookery bible. Mum taught me to cook at an early age & by 12yrs old I was cooking the Sunday Roast complete with a Pudding single handedly. I remember kicking up a stink on many a Sunday morning because I wanted to be doing something else, but my goodness did all that training pay off & I am so pleased that Mum taught me so well. I am not an expert by any means but, I am a confident cook that will try anything and normally with successful tasty results. I passed my cooking skills on to my sons too I think, because Ady is a chef for reputable inn and my youngest loves to cook also. Steve trys and is now producing a superb Roast dinner and Kev, well he is married to one of the best homely cooks I know and Kev is fit to burst :)
Anyway rambling over, if you enjoy cooking you may well enjoy this website as well. It is jam packed with the original Mrs Beeton, including the dates she used to make them and the prices in old money that it would have cost you back then to make the dishes. There are recipes in there that are now long forgotten and probably not even used anymore in the modern UK, such as calves feet in Aspic and other similar things that I certain don't entertain anymore but, it's a fun site.
Enjoy
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