A New System of Domestic Cookery, first published in 1806 by Maria Rundell, was the most popular English cookery book of the first half of the nineteenth century; it is often referred to simply as Mrs
Title page of 1813 edition
Frontispiece of a T. J. Allman edition
Recipe "Gravy to make Mutton eat like Venison"
Plate VI, "Venison. Beef."
Isabella Beeton
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Isabella Mary Beeton, known as Mrs Beeton, was an English journalist, editor and writer. Her name is particularly associated with her first book, the 1861 work Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Manageme
A New System of Domestic Cookery
…staff." She says that compared to Eliza Acton "who could write better" (as in her 1845 book, Modern Cookery for Private Families), and the "ubiquitous" Mrs Beeton, Rundell "has unfairly slipped from view". Alan Davidson, in the Oxford Companion to Food writes that "It did not include many novel features, although…
Beeton photographed c. 1854
Cheapside, London, where Isabella and her family moved in 1836
The new race stand at Epsom Racecourse in 1829
Samuel Orchart Beeton in 1860