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Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson; 14 March 1836 – 6 February 1865), also known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management. She was born in London and, after schooling in Islington, north London, and Heidelberg, Germany, she married Samuel Orchart Beeton, an ambitious publisher and magazine editor.

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there should be a place for everything, and everything in its place.

Everything, Order, Organization, Organized Life, Place

Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.

Cooking, Dine, Elegantly, Food, May, Wholesomely

The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yard, while its broad and deep breast, and its ample back, convey the assurance that your satisfaction will not cease at its death.

Food, Ducks, White, Aylesbury, Snowy, Duck

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the preparations concocted within its walls.

Food, Household, Kitchen, Preparations, Wall, Walls

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

Dust, Gas, Months, Spring, Usual, Winter

Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc. , being brought in as other guests arrive.

Afternoon, Arrive, Cake, Pastries, Supplies, Tea

I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways.

Badly, Cooked, Dinner, Dinners, Source, Way

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

Civilization, Knows, Leadership, Nation, Progress

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband. . . . . but no sooner is he domesticated than he becomes polygamous, and makes nothing of owning ten or a dozen wives at a time.

Food, Husband, Regret, Regretted, Ten, Wild

What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways.

Men, Suffering, Dinner, Household, Ways

Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed. . . Economy and frugality must never, however, be allowed to degenerate into meanness.

Allowed, Degenerate, Degenerates, Income, Waste

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

Excellence, Fashion, Greatest, Luxury, Table

It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circumstances, they may be dispensed with without disadvantage to the merely animal functions, but it is an error, certainly, to conclude from this that they may be altogether dispensed with in reference to their effects; and It is a question whether, if we had no tea and no coffee, the popular instinct would not seek for and discover the means of replacing them.

Animal, Coffee, Dispensed, Lived, Mean, Replacing

The half-hour before dinner has always been considered as the great ordeal through which the mistress, in giving a dinner-party, will either pass with flying colours, or lose many of her laurels.

Colours, Flying, Giving, Party, Pass

Pay, pay anything rather than go to law.

Law, Pay

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities of nature, so in the art of cookery is the progress gradual from the earliest and simplest modes, to those of the most complicated and refined.

Art, Arts, Civilization, Nature, Rude, Simplest

A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not perceive the odour incident to cooking, or hear the noise of culinary operations.

House, Cooking, Kitchen, Incident, Good