The white Aylesbury duck is, and deservedly, a universal favourite. Its snowy plumage and comfortable comportment make it a credit to the poultry-yar…

- Isabella Beeton

The kitchen is the great laboratory of the household, and much of the 'weal and woe' as far as regards bodily health, depends on the nature of the pr…

- Isabella Beeton

A good kitchen should be sufficiently remote from the principal apartments of the house, that the members, visitors, or guests of the family, may not…

- Isabella Beeton

It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state, he is a faithful husband.....bu…

- Isabella Beeton

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

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

Dining is the privilege of civilization. . . . The nation which knows how to dine has learnt the leading lesson of progress.

- Isabella Beeton

It is true, says Liebeg, that thousands have lived without a knowledge of tea and coffee; and daily experience teaches us that, under certain circums…

- Isabella Beeton

As in the fine arts, the progress of mankind from barbarism to civilisation is marked by a gradual succession of triumphs over the rude materialities…

- Isabella Beeton