The legacy Isabella Beeton and recipes

MANY of Isabella Beeton’s 900odd recipes were not her own for which modern-day cookery writers have taken her to task—but she is credited as the first to publish them in the clear format (ingredients followed by method, including cooking time, right) that everyone uses today.

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Described by biographer Kathryn Hughes as ‘the first domestic goddess’, she remains a byword for domestic efficiency thanks to Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household

Management, the first instalment of which, in 1861, sold 60,000 copies in a year and millions thereafter.