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Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer

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What I Loved About Eliza Acton?

i loved learning about, you know, how how they ate what they ate and how they ate it. It was so much more sophisticated than i imagined. She uses apples as called yo she'll specify that she wants you to use a pippin or, er, a codlin. Every every bit of peeling, every bone went into this stock pot,. And now we would call that zero waste, but yuow, she was doing zero waste. 200 years ago, everything got eaten. Even if it wasn't used to eat, it was used to make candles or to make sausage skins, or to make something. So there was just never any waste. I did think we

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