Modern Cookery, for Private Families

REDUCED TO A SYSTEM OF EASY PRACTICE,

IN A SERIES OF

CAREFULLY TESTED RECEIPTS,

IN WHICH THE PRINCIPLES OF

BARON LIEBIG AND OTHER EMINENT WRITERS

HAVE BEEN AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE APPLIED AND EXPLAINED.

BY ELIZA ACTON.

“It is the want of a scientific basis which has given rise to so many absurd and hurtful methods of preparing food.”—DR. GREGORY.

Newly Revised and much Enlarged Edition,

COPIOUSLY ILLUSTRATED.

LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS.

1860.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY WOODFALL AND KINDER,

ANGEL COURT, SKINNER STREET.