The opening of Preface
_The reasons for the publication of this Volume—the
First of a Series of Practical Manuals which were
to be called the “All About It” Books—were thus
explained in a Prospectus issued a few months ago,
and approved by the late_ Mrs. S. O. BEETON:—MANY wishes have been expressed to the Authoress of the “Book of Household Management” that a volume of Recipes in Cookery should be written which could be sold at a price somewhere between the seven-and-sixpenny “Household Management” and the Shilling Cookery Book. Accordingly Mrs. BEETON has prepared a Collection of Recipes, and of other Practical Information concerning the Dressing and Serving of Family Fare, which, when completed, will be published, in serviceable binding, at the price of Three Shillings and Sixpence.