The Recipe Book of Ada de la Harpe

    23 August 2025

    This is my grandmother Ada de la Harpe’s recipe book. I did a version over a decade ago and have finally gotten around to posting it. There’s an introduction to give you some background on Ada and the book

    Hope you like it.

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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.