Once upon a time the head of the family, the husband, went out to work each day to provide for his family while the wife stayed at home and followed her trades as a cook, cleaner, laundress, nurse, etc. And one of the tools she needed for her trade as a cook was a cookery book with detailed instructions on how to put those important meals on the table.
Vera Tansey married in 1929 and is pictured here a few weeks after her wedding. She had provided herself with an Every Ladies’ Cook-Book by Miss Drake.
As you can see it has been well and truly used by my mother
Lucy Drake who had trained in London had been in charge of cookery classes at Swinburne Technical College in Melbourne. Her salary when she started in 1914 was 12/6 a week. The publishers of Everylady’s Journal decided Australia needed a…
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