Eliza Acton
Elizabeth "Eliza" Acton (17 April 1799 – 13 February 1859) was an English poet and cook. She was born in Battle, Sussex and raised in Suffolk. She wrote one the first cookbooks for cooking at home, not for professional cook or chef, Modern Cookery for Private Families. In this book she started the use of listing the ingredients and suggested cooking times with each recipe, like all the world does now. Modern Cookery was sold for a long time after her death, until 1914 and can still be found at many libraries. Her recipes are still very famous.
Eliza Acton Media
Advertisement placed by Acton in The Ipswich Journal for her boarding school
Bordyke House (now Red House), in Tonbridge
Title page of Poems, Acton's 1826 collection
Frontispiece of The English Bread Book, 1857
Cuts of game, from Modern Cookery
Other websites
- Biography at foodreference.com
- Poems by Eliza Acton Archived 2010-05-07 at the Wayback Machine