The Imperial Bushman’s Manual of Cookery 1900: Looking for answers

    8 August 2024

    2024

    I recently came into possession of this cookbook that has left me with questions that have gone unanswered in the websites for the Imperial Bushman Contingents in the Boer War, in the National Library of Australia, or in Trove the national digital repository for newspapers, magazines and journals. And it is not listed in Hoyle’s index of Australian cookery books.

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    Paul van Reyk
    My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.