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Three years after Benjamin's death Elizabeth married Henry Dorling, a widower with four children. Henry was the Clerk of Epsom Racecourse, and had been granted residence within the racecourse grounds. The family, including Elizabeth's mother, moved to Surrey [7] and over the next twenty years Henry and Elizabeth had a further thirteen children. Isabella was instrumental in her siblings' upbringing, and collectively referred to them as a "living cargo of children". [8] [9] [d] The experience gave her much insight and experience in how to manage a family and its household. [12] The tomato's) flavour stimulates the appetite and is almost universally approved. The Tomato is a wholesome fruit, and digests easily.... it has been found to contain a particular acid, a volatile oil, a brown, very fragrant extracto-resinous matter, a vegeto-mineral matter, muco-saccharine, some salts, and, in all probability, an alkaloid. The whole plant has a disagreeable odour, and its juice, subjected to the action of the fire, emits a vapour so powerful as to cause vertigo and vomiting. Hardy, Sheila (2011). The Real Mrs Beeton: The Story of Eliza Acton. Stroud, Glous: History Press. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-7524-6680-4. The Marvellous Mrs Beeton, with Sophie Dahl". BBC. Archived from the original on 2 January 2016 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management". Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015.Mayson became a journalist for the Daily Mail; he was knighted for his work at the Ministry of Munitions during the First World War. The Beetons' elder son, Orchart, went on to a career in the army; both died in 1947. [88] Wilson, Bee (18 September 2000). "Good egg; Food – You can't beat Mrs Beeton, says Bee Wilson". New Statesman. p.29. Meet Mrs Beeton". Genome (Radio Times 1923–2009). BBC. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 2 December 2015. a b "Isabella Beeton". Orion Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015 . Retrieved 1 December 2015.

She explains that she was thus attempting to make the basics of cookery "intelligible" to any "housewife". [2] Covers skillfully reattached, cloth lightly soiled, corners a little creased; a remarkably fresh copy. T]hese are so prepared, improved, and dressed by skill and ingenuity, that they are the means of immeasurably extending the boundaries of human enjoyments. Within a month of returning from their honeymoon Beeton was pregnant. [26] A few weeks before the birth, Samuel persuaded his wife to contribute to The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, a publication that the food writers Mary Aylett and Olive Ordish consider was "designed to make women content with their lot inside the home, not to interest them in the world outside". [27] The magazine was affordable, aimed at young middle class women and was commercially successful, selling 50,000 issues a month by 1856. [28] Beeton began by translating French fiction for publication as stories or serials. [29] Shortly afterwards she started to work on the cookery column—which had been moribund for the previous six months following the departure of the previous correspondent—and the household article. [30] [31] The Beetons' son, Samuel Orchart, was born towards the end of May 1857, but died at the end of August that year. On the death certificate, the cause of death was given as diarrhoea and cholera, although Hughes hypothesises that Samuel senior had unknowingly contracted syphilis in a premarital liaison with a prostitute, and had unwittingly passed the condition on to his wife, which would have infected his son. [32] I must frankly own, that if I had known, beforehand, that this book would have cost me the labour which it has, I should never have been courageous enough to commence it. What moved me, in the first instance, to attempt a work like this, was the discomfort and suffering which I had seen brought upon men and women by household mismanagement. I have always thought that there is no more fruitful source of family discontent than a housewife's badly-cooked dinners and untidy ways. [2]Nichols, Martha (June 2000). "Home is Where the Dirt is". The Women's Review of Books. 17 (9): 9–11. doi: 10.2307/4023454. JSTOR 4023454. Barnes, Julian (5 April 2003). "Mrs Beeton to the rescue". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015 . Retrieved 1 March 2016. Shapiro, Laura (28 May 2006). " 'The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs. Beeton,' by Kathryn Hughes: Domestic Goddess". New York Times. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021 . Retrieved 8 April 2015. The whole rest of the book is taken up with instructions for cooking, with an introduction in each chapter to the type of food it describes. The first of these, on soups, begins "Lean, juicy beef, mutton, and veal form the basis of all good soups; therefore it is advisable to procure those pieces which afford the richest succulence, and such as are fresh-killed." The account of how to make soup consists of a single essay, divided into general advice and numbered steps for making any kind of (meat-based) soup. This is followed in early editions by a separate chapter of recipes for soups of different kinds. [26]