A damper tale

    18 January 2025

    January 2025

    I like many other Australians have cooked a damper in the ashes of a fire while camping. I didn’t give any thought to its origin or its place at the Australian table at the time, I was too busy enjoying it hot from the ashes spread with honey.  Having lately come across a reference to it it snagged the food historian in me. The result is this article.

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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.