My hybrid Sri Lankan Christmas cake

    25 June 2023

    It’s a tradition.  Every December I go to my grandmother Ada’s recipe book.  Page 95: Christmas Cake. I’ve made it for my family for over 30 years.

    As I make it, the book and the recipe always catapult me back to Sri Lanka, back to the kitchen of my childhood.

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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.

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