Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian food history.

    23 August 2024

    August 2024

    In 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions for Making – Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Conserves, Pickles, Sauces and Chutneys etc., Bottling (or Canning), Drying (or evaporating) Fruits & Vegetables. From my experience in the Australian food history world it is generally forgotten. This article hopes to redress this.

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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.