No ordinary custard. Ice Cream in Australia 1839 – 1939

    7 February 2025

    February 2025

    I couldn’t resist it.

    The GG

    Chocolate ice cream dipped in milk chocolate, malted milk crumb, salted caramel + raspberry.

    I’ve been writing a lot lately about iconic food in Australia or nearly so and my attention was immediately turned by this toward ice creams. From the first bite of a Lime Splice to the above ice creams have been a part of my life until recently when I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. Relishing the GG was some kind of redress for the wrongness of this. This article is another.

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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.