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. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Frugality and economy are virtues without which no household can prosper. Whatever the income, waste of all kinds should be most sternly repressed ...… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly cooked dinners and untidy ways, — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Afternoon tea should be provided, fresh supplies, with thin bread-and-butter, fancy pastries, cakes, etc., being brought in as other guests arrive. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
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… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
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… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress. — Isabella Beeton Copy Share Image
