December 2023
As I’ve been researching various items of food in Australia one item keeps cropping up like an insistent child tugging at my leg wanting me to give it attention. Well, I give in. This paper is going to be all about vermicelli at the settler Australian table via a vermicelli themed dinner.
The recipes have been sourced through Trove, the digitised depository for newspapers and magazines managed by the National Library. I limited my search to recipes from 1872 with the first vermicelli recipe in Trove to fifty years later, 1952. I also went to my collection of Australian cookery books looking only at those that were generalist i.e. not about a particular ingredient or practice.
