Provisioning: A food journey in Sydney town in 1820

    30 May 2024

    2024

    I’ve got guests coming to early supper tonight. So today will be spent provisioning for supper and also some of my larder foodstuffs need replenishing. This is the provisioning plan.

    First things first. Off to John Moses, Bread and Biscuit Baker, and Confectioner who sells exceptional ‘Loaf Bread, at 3½d per Loaf’.  I’ll have to get in early to get a couple of loaves. He may also have some drop biscuits I can buy and scoff during the day. And yes, they are what they sound like, biscuit batter dropped on a hot surface.

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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.