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Tonight let's return to a volume that has proved time and again to be the most popular thing ever read on this

podcast The Book of Household Management, comprising information for the mistress, housekeeper, cook, kitchenmaid, butler, footman, coachman, valet, upper and under housemaids, ladies maid of all work, laundry made, nurse and nurse made,

monthly wet and sick nurses, etc. etc.

Also sanitary, medical, and legal memoranda,

with a history of the origin, Properties, and Uses, of all things connected with home life and

comfort, by Mrs. Isabella Beaton, published originally by SO Beaton in 24 monthly parts from 1859 to 1861, and first published in a bound edition in 1861.

This time, let's return to the kitchen, where Mrs. Beaton spends most of this volume,

and learn more about excellence in the art of cookery.

Let's begin.

Excellence in the art of cookery, as in all other things, is only attainable by practice and experience.

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