
Eliza Acton: Britain’s first modern cookery writer
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The Cooking Rooms of Middle Class Women
Eliza put the list of ingredients at the end of the recipe, where it has stayed until a still. When she was reading the original recipes, she would then probably have written down the immediately underneath the recipe, and that's where she left it. If you think bout what kitchens were like back then, they're not like our, our kitchens to day. They needed to be cool in order to keep their milk fresh and things beaue. We had to remember, they had no, no, no refrigeration. So they were north facing, which meant they were often dark and gloomy.
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