Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer
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Cooking From a Cookbook
Eliza didn't know how to cook, so she decided to put a list of ingredients. And that had never happened before. She's perhaps most famous for inventing the recipe we all work with. We open a cookery book and it doesn't have an ingredients list or tell you how many covers it serve.
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