This is my jam! I have so many of these cookbooks tucked away on my ereader. Have you read any of Eliza Leslie? Cooking and housekeeping hints, but she is so salty! Hannah Wooley was the first woman in England to have a cookbook published. It was so popular, others started immediately ripping off her recipes and republishing them with new titles.
I would imagine you have read your Mrs. Beetons? Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management
There are some interesting recipes, and she and her book were widely influential. The book contained reasonably detailed instructions and quantities. There wasn’t any of that ‘cook in the usual manner’ that Caréme and Escoffier used. It was much more a modern cookbook in that respect.
From a modern lens she was also horrible, i.e. ‘Indian servants are good, many of them: but they cannot be trusted and will cheat if they have a chance’.
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