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 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… — Isabella Beeton Copy Share
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
