Beeton's death (in 1865) to 74 chapters and over 2000 pages; [13] the first edition had 44 chapters. Now the formalities are over and done with, one bids you a rather jovial welcome to the royal household of Miss Windsor’s Delectables – How do you do?

A small quantity of lemon-juice, and a little of the peel minced, are by many persons considered an improvement to the flavour of rhubarb tart.However, Beeton references the ‘large number of persons’ who ‘abstain from animal food altogether’ and suggests that ‘there is no reason why we should not bestow upon [vegetables] some of the care in selection and cultivation that now is bestowed upon meat (705).

Amazingly, double the size of the original, my 1906 version exceeds 2056 pages – a stonker of a book! Now I must divulge since I was a child I found it difficult to fathom why one would indulge in these rather odd looking baked mini "frisbees" - and heaven knows where the Yorkshire and the pudding come into it? Students are struck by the ample amount of onions, garlic, ginger, mustard and chilies, salt, and sugar. Beeton has been compared on the strength of the book with modern " domestic goddesses" [1] like Nigella Lawson and Delia Smith. Mrs Isabella Beeton’s most treasured creation – Beeton’s Book of Household Management was first published.Mrs Beeton suggests cutting it into one-inch length pieces, however I seem to have bought the largest rhubarb known to man, so I’ve adjusted my measurements to suit.