Eliza Acton Quotes

• It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.

  Eliza Acton

  Book, Needs, Half

  Eliza Acton (1860). “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”, p.11

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• It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting into palatable meals what the ignorant either render uneatable or throw away in disdain.

  Eliza Acton

  Ignorant, Meals, May

  Eliza Acton (1865). “Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...”, p.8

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• Te amo como amo el tono
  De alguna flauta de suave respiración
  Cuya alma se despierta sólo para mí,
  cuando todo lo demás es mudo.

  Eliza Acton

  Famous Love, Breathing, Soul

  Eliza Acton (1826). “Poems”, p.110

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• The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If well made....they prove that both skill and taste have been exerted in its arrangements. When coarsely or carelessly prepared....they greatly discredit the cook.

  Eliza Acton

  Skills, Differences, Cooking

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• Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.

  Eliza Acton

  Food, Home, Skills

  Eliza Acton (1868). “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”, p.594

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• Se sabe que las verduras, cuando no están suficientemente cocidas, son tan sumamente malsanas e indigestas, que la costumbre de servirlas "crujientes" debería desecharse por completo cuando se considera que la salud es más importante que la moda.

  Eliza Acton

  Fashion, Vegetables, Should

  Eliza Acton (1845). “Modern Cookery, in All Its Branches: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, for the Use of Private Families. In a Series of Receipts, which Have Been Strictly Tested, and are Given with the Most Minute Exactness”, p.228

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