The complete guide to creating delicious puddings and desserts by our most famous cook - fully updated for the 21st-century kitchen.
From the lightest lemon posset to a luscious trifle and an aromatic chocolate souffle, puddings and desserts are a delicious way to end a meal. In Britain, we are home to some of the best local produce - from succulent summer berries, autumn pears and winter rhubarb - and Mrs Beeton has ensured that the ingredients on our doorsteps have been used to create a perfect treat for any occasion, all year round.
All of the recipes have been drawn from Mrs Beeton's original Book of Household Management and have been updated for the 21st-century kitchen. Combined with sound, modern advice on how to source good food, plus detailed information on ingredients and equipment, and illustrations of all the techniques required, this is the go-to mini-book for any aspiring or experienced home cook.
Isabella Mary Beeton was born in London is 1836 where she grew up in a household of twenty-one children. It took Isabella four years to compile her masterwork publishing Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management in 1861. It contains an enormous amount of information to help people live in Isabella Beeton's own words 'economically tastefully and well'. Her style imparting information as clearly and simply as possible was hugely influential. The book sold 60000 copies in its first year but Isabella Beeton died four years later in 1865 aged just twenty-eight. The enduring popularity of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is testament to the quality of her advice.
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