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LADIES' DELIGHT, LADY'S DELIGHT
Simon, Andre L. 1952. A Concise Encyclopaedia of Gastronomy. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York.
The name of a home-made pickle, of which the following is one of the recipes: Put 8 oz. of apples, 8 of onions and 2 of chillis, all chopped into a pickle bottle. Pour over them a pint of white wine vinegar which has been boiled with a dessertspoonful of salt. In a few days it will be ready for use.
Garrett, Theodore Francis (edited by). 1898. the Encyclopedia of Practical Cookery. L. Upcott Gill, 170, Strand, W.C. London. Vol. II
is the fanciful name given to a mild pickle which is supposed to give great satisfaction to refined female tastes with sour apples, onions, green or red chillies, white wine, malt vinegar salt.