Remembering the Past Australia

Ladies' Delight Pickles (1895)

Ladies Delight Pickles

Attributed to Mrs. Beeton, published in the Weekly Herald (Adelaide), 8 February 1895.

Isabella Beeton (nee Mayson) was best known for her first book “Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management” published in 1861. The book, also known as “Mrs. Beeton’s Cookery Book”, has been in virtual continual print until the present day. According to the Oxford English Dictionary “by 1861 the term Mrs. Beeton had become used as a generic name for domestic authority.

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