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Eliza Acton Biography

Elizabeth "Eliza" Acton (17 April 1799 – 13 February 1859) was an English food writer and poet, who produced one of Britain's first cookbooks aimed at the domestic reader, Modern Cookery for Private Families. The book introduced the now-universal practice of listing ingredients and giving suggested cooking times for each recipe. It included the first recipes in English for Brussels sprouts and for spaghetti, and contains the first printed reference to Christmas pudding.

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It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

Averred, Disdain, Ignorant, May, Meals, Render

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.

Breathing, Famous Love, Flute, Mute, Soul

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

Book, Books, Duties, Half, Needs

Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be altogether disregarded when health is considered of more importance than fashion.

Considered, Cooked, Fashion, Indigestible, Should, Vegetables

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.

Cooking, Difference, Differences, Prepared, Scarcely, Skills

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.

Assert, Food, Home, Homes, Skills, Slightest

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