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Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Isabella Beeton’s “Book of Household Management”, first published in 1861, was the Victorian kitchen classic. Its colour plates show cold collations and cold entrées, fish, vegetables plain and dressed, sweets and gâteaux, arrangements of dessert fruit and a cheese chart.

Vegetables

Mrs Beeton's Household Management

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Dessert Fruit

Mrs Beeton's Household Management

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Cold Entrées

Mrs Beeton's Household Management

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Dessert Fruit

Mrs Beeton's Household Management

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Fish

Mrs Beeton's Household Management

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About Mrs Beeton's Household Management

Beeton was in her early twenties when the book first came out in monthly parts, published by her husband, Samuel Beeton; she died in 1865 at the age of 28. The book was revised and enlarged long after her death, and its later editions carried full-page colour plates showing dishes as they were meant to arrive at table.

Those plates work like a catalogue. Each one lines up finished dishes side by side: cold collations and entrées raised on stands, vegetables served plain or dressed on silver platters, fish, cakes and pastries, and dessert fruit arranged on glass stands. A chart of cheeses sets out the varieties one by one. Every sheet is reproduced as a giclée print with pigment inks, made to order in Berlin, on matte 210 g/m² fine art paper or 400 g/m² cotton canvas in sizes A4 to A0.