Cakes, Biscuits, Puddings and Sometimes Curry. Fifty years of culinary use of coconuts in Australia

    2 June 2025

    2025

    Few people know how useful cocoa-nuts are in cooking.  They can be used in both the sweet and savoury dishes and, as many old Indians will tell you no curry is perfect without a good share of cocoa-nut.

    Mrs. Lance Rawson

    I think she was being harsh. In the years before she published her cookery book there had been a number of recipes for using coconut published

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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.