Caramel, Potatoes,  and Liver and Bacon. Victoria Department of Public Instruction Cookery Instruction Cards 1930

    29 March 2025

    March 2025

    Sometime between 1887 – 1906  the Victorian Department of Public Instruction published a set of 30 Cookery Instruction Cards. A set cost 1 shilling and individual cards could be bought for ½ penny. I have no information as to how they were sold or who was the intended target. I bought mine from a cookery bookseller.

    Each card has one or more recipes, Ingredients for the dish(es), Utensils Required to make the dish(es), and the Method. The list of cards and recipes is Appendix 1. There are 46 recipes on the cards I have. My set is missing card 12.

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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.