Eliza Acton
English food journalist and poet
Eliza Acton was an English food writer and poet who produced one of Britain's first cookery books aimed at the domestic reader, Modern Cookery for Private Families. The book introduced the now-universal practice of listing ingredients and giving... Wikipedia
Born: April 17, 1799, Battle, United Kingdom
Died: February 13, 1859 (age 59 years), Hampstead, London, United Kingdom
Notable work: Modern Cookery for Private Families
Books
Modern Cookery for Private Families
1845
Modern Cookery
The English Bread Book
1857
Modern Cookery: For Private Families... a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts...
The Best of Eliza Acton: Recipes from Her Classic "Modern Cookery for Private Families," First Published in 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
1845