From the Athenæum

Miss Acton, whose work on Modern Cookery must be familiar to all good housewives, is impressed with the fact, that, important as bread is, and ever must be, to English people, there are large numbers who do not know how to make it. She has, therefore, stepped forward with her great knowledge of all cooking arts, to instruct English people how to make bread. We see no more effectual way of avoiding the miserable compound of flour and alum, which, in spite of all our sanitary talk, we are obliged to consume from day to day, than for each family to make its own bread. In this book, Miss Acton shows that, in every house possessed of an oven, this can be conveniently and cheaply done. All that seems to be required is an ordinary modicum of common sense and the energy to persevere in the experiment, and no one need suffer from the wretched adulteration to which the bread in bakers’ shops appears to be universally submitted.