A refreshing drink that you may enjoy daily. Aspects of billy tea

17 April 2026

In this article I look at aspects of the billy, making billy tea, roles billy tea has played and other aspects. I have limited my search to 1851 – 1951; a hundred years from the first reference to billy tea as below. I have slightly extended the end of the period to 1954 as above.

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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.