Damper, Wild Duck and A Cup of Tea. Bush cooking while droving.

    5 April 2025

    April 2025

    Most days breakfast is damper and a cup of tea. The cook has been awake well before the drovers to prepare these. Every cook has his own recipe for damper and how it should be cooked. Flour and water are the main ingredients. Some use a rising agent like soda bicarbonate. He doesn’t – he reckons it’s not damper when you do that.

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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.