Family cookbook vs The cook's oracle: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: English Cookery, Home economics, English Cooking, Cookery, Cooking
Family cookbook
'As with the commander of an army, or the leader of any enterprise, so it is with the mistress of a house.' A founding text of Victorian middle-class identity, Household Management is today one of the great unread…
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The cook's oracle
The processes of cookery are very few: author has endeavoured to describe each, in so plain and circumstantial a manner, as it will be easily understood, even by the amateur, unacquainted with the practical part of…
The verdict
- The cook's oracle is the quickest read — about 7 hours vs 16 for Family cookbook.
Reception
| Family cookbook | The cook's oracle | |
|---|---|---|
| Editions | 15 | 11 |
| Citations | — | 3 |
| Wikipedia attention | 89 | — |
| Pages | 880 | 424 |