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The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.

Eliza Acton

I love thee as I love the tone
Of some soft-breathing flute
Whose soul is wak'd for me alone,
When all beside is mute.

Eliza Acton

Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.

Eliza Acton

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

Eliza Acton

Eliza Acton

Eliza Acton

Born: April 17, 1799

Died: February 13, 1859 (aged 59)

Bio: Elizabeth "Eliza" Acton was an English cook and poet, who produced one of the country's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader, rather than professional cooks or chefs: Modern Cookery for Private Families.

Known for:

Modern Cookery for Private Families (1845)
The English Bread Book (1857)
The Elegant Economist

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