this is a stark contrast to Bad Feminist :D It's like having your great great great grandmother deliver unsolicited advice about how women ought to behave within her domestic sphere for pages on end.
Remember, ladies, we are the "Angel in the House" after all :P
"As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house" this is Isabella Beeton reminding you SEPARATE SPHERES GODDAMMIT!
"She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice and trains up the other to virtue is a much greater character than ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes" women don't need weapons, they just need a good cookbook.
. . and Isabella Beeton is right here to give you one weeeeeeeeee!!!
"in conversation, trifling occurrences, such as small disappointments, petty annoyances and other everyday incidents should never be mentioned to your friends.
if the mistress be a wife, never let an account of her husband's failings pass her lips and in cultivating the power of conversation, she should keep the versified advice of Cowper continually in her memory that it 'should flow like water after summer showers not as if raised by mere mechanic powers'" you have no problems.
none whatsoever. do not bore people with your issues, and your husband is flawless, he might be cheating on you, he might be gambling away all the income but HE IS ABOVE CRITICISM GODDAMMIT!
I don't feel I can give this a star rating, I'm treating the Great Food series as primary source material, but I think you can see my views on the content and the advice as it stands.
Yes, I am in a weird mood as I write this review :D Goodreads väidab, et ma olen seda raamatuta tagasi juba lugenud.
võtab nõutuks, sest tõesti ei mäleta, et oleks, sain siit praegusel lugemiskorral väga palju uut teada:
ma muidugi teadsin mrs Beetoni ja tema tähtsuse kohta inglise toiduajaloos, aga olin teda teenete ja kuulsuse põhjal alati ette kujutanud eaka matroonina.
selgub, et proua hakkas ajalehekolumnides retsepte ja majapidamisnõu avaldama jubaaastaselt, raamatuna mille lühendatud variandi meile Penguin siinkohal ongi välja andnud ilmusid need tema.
eluaastal ja suri taaastasena, olles selleks ajaks sünnitanud neli ja matnud neist kaks last, lisaks veel nurisünnitused.
täitsa dickens, noh. kõik see juhtusndatelndatel, nii et tegelt ka täpselt Dickensi kaasaegne,
õpetused majapidamise üldise korrashoiu ja seltskonnas käitumise osas olid abiks, näiteks selgub, et koera pole viisakas külla kaasa võtta ja lapsi võib võtta ainult juhul, kui nad on kas erakordselt hästi treenitud või jäetakse tõlda ootama.
ja riideid tuleb osta kolme põhimõtte kohaselt: eelkõige olgu nad taskukohased, teiseks sobigu su jume ja kehakujuga ja kolmandaks klappigu kokku ülejäänud garderoobiga.
okei, seda kõike ma aimasin enne ka, aga lihtsalt hea teada, et juba tol ammusel ajal nii arvati.
samas arvati sel ammusel ajal, et porgandid ja kurgid on seedumatu toit et lapsed ja vanainimesed peaksid jäätisest ja külmadest jookidest hoiduma ja ka ülejäänud inimesed neid väga ettevaatlikult tarbima et väga hea mangochutney siin öeldakse "chetney" saab teha ilma igasuguste mangodeta, lihtsalt õuntest.
ühesõnaga, leidus veidrusi, mis on hea, sest eks ma selleks ju loengi vanaaegset kokaraamatut, et veidrusi leida.
selle raamatu põhjal on inglise köögi aastasadadepikkune halb maine küll täiesti ära teenitud.
põhimõtteliselt kõik toidud koosnevad järgmisest komponentidest: eelmisest toidukorrast üle jäänud liha, jahu, sool, pipar, piim, muna, või, mõned ürdid nimepidi on ära toodud petersell ja salvei, aga "savoury herbs" käib ikka läbi.
magustoitude juures lisatakse ka suhkur, aga üsna beež tundub see kõik kokku, ei tekkinud soovi ühtegi retsepti ise järele proovida, This is another little excerpt book in Penguin'sbook strong Great Food series, With mini chapters taken from Mrs Beeton's main work, there's advice on how to hire servants, what makes a good wife, how to pay calls and how to hold dinner parties.
There's also recipes on all courses meat, fish, veg, cakes, puddings and even meals for invalid's! Admittedly, as I don't eat red meat I can't comment on those recipes, but as for the others there isn't anything amazing turning up in this excerpt book.
Really it's more for the historical interest as to what people were eating at the time, As for the section on manners and ettiquette, Honestly, what a bunch of repressed, superficial snobs, Everything's so regulated and intense, it seems like you'd never have the chance to relax and be yourself or to spend your time only with people you like, but rather having to put on a good face for the people you can't stand either.
And these were the days when good women were just there for the running of the house and making the domestic life wonderful for the men.
Not a time I would have liked to have lived in, Although in fairness I would probably have ended up as a maid of all work and work myself to the bone at a young age, so I wouldn't have even had time to think of a social life and what was socially proper.
Incidentally, I like the cover design on this one, This Victorian English guide to housekeeping is short but covers extensive topics, Some of the advice is clearly outdated, For example, Beeton insists that women should leave their children waiting in the carriage during visits to friends homes.
Other sections, however, are still relevant, such as the discussion about ethically raising fowl, All around, the recipes and advice create a window into middle class English culture during the mids.
This book, originally published as part of a longer work in, is essentially a howto guide for the middleclass housewife.
If Martha Stewart, Peggy Post, and Alice Waters had a book babyyears ago, it would be The Campaign for Domestic Happiness.
When viewed as a historical document, this book is both interesting and humorous, with some advice that still applies today.
However, if looked at as anything else, it is truly problematic, The work reinforces and reflects the societal and gender norms of the time,
There are sections on social etiquette for parties, for visiting friends and acquaintances, for how to dress and style oneself, meals, leisure time, how much to pay household servants, and how to keep a balanced account of monies spent.
There are a number of recipes in the later half of the book, many of which include an average cost, as well as the seasonality of ingredients.
I am curious to try cooking some of the dishes, to see if they are agreeable to a modern palate.
Overall, this is an interesting little book that functions as a window into life of the middleclass woman in the mids England.
The first section on household management was pretty fun to read nowadays, Yep, gotta get up before those servants to keep them on their toes,
The ISBN on my bookdoes not match what is shown, Otherwise seems to be the same book, Mine was part of the Penguin Great Food set, Upon further investigation, I have onlyreading pages, And, "This edition published for The Book People Ltd,"
Sorry, I'm too lazy to create another entry for this.
This was an abridged version of Mrs Beeton, really sweet and interesting, but I'm not sure I could plough through the complete version! In the front is a lady's guide to properly behaving and running a household, which I would certainly turn to if transported back in time.
. . Included with the recipes are the prices and seasonability of different food, as well as providing an often hilarious commentary about certain ingredients.
Choice lines include the carrot 'as a fattening food for cattle, it is excellent but for man it is indigestible, on account of its fibrous nature' and the competition between French and English beef 'This is mere vaunting on the part of our neighbours, who seem to want la gloire in everything.
' However, Mrs B had her head screwed on properly when it comes to chicken 'The barnfed fowl is
in itself a complete refutation of the cramming and dungeon policy of feeding practised by some.
' You go girl!.