Catherine Emily Callbeck Dalgairns authored “The Practice of Cookery, Adapted to the Business of Every Day Life” in 1829, a collection of over 1,400 recipes with preparatory remarks that was a commercial and critical success through 30 years and 16 editions in the United Kingdom and the Americas. This volume is an adaptation of the 1830 edition with the complete text, 27-page index, and eight chapters of non-recipe topics like Poultry Yard, Kitchen Garden, Bees, Pigs and Dairy along with appendices. It includes a substantive introduction by editor Mary F. Williamson, who painstakingly researched the background of Dalgairns, revealing the Canadian roots of an author dubbed as Scottish in her time, and provides context to this encyclopedic record of 19th century cookery.