Vegetables when not sufficiently cooked are know to be so exceedingly unwholesome and indigestible, that the custom of serving them 'crisp' should be…

- Eliza Acton

It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting in…

- Eliza Acton

The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well…

- Eliza Acton

It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

- Eliza Acton

I love thee as I love the tone Of some soft-breathing flute Whose soul is wak'd for me alone, When all beside is mute.

- Eliza Acton

Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the s…

- Eliza Acton