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Hooke(d). Restoring George England Hooke’s 1905 fruit preserving book to Australian food history.
23 August 2024

August 2024 In 1905 George England Hooke published Australian Fruit Preserving. A Practical Treatise on the Best Methods With Instructions for Making – Jams, Marmalades, Jellies, Conserves, Pickles, Sauces and Chutneys …

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The Classic Aussie Burger (CAB). An incomplete history.
23 August 2024

August 2024 Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a minced beef patties, …

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Diggings 12 August 2024
12 August 2024

The bandicoot bandits causing a truffle kerfuffle The native marsupials are sniffing out and gorging themselves on thousands of dollars of black, or French, truffles a night, causing a headache for …

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The Imperial Bushman’s Manual of Cookery 1900: Looking for answers
8 August 2024

2024 I recently came into possession of this cookbook that has left me with questions that have gone unanswered in the websites for the Imperial Bushman Contingents in the Boer War, …

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The avocado story in Australia 1824 – 2000 as told through recipes
8 August 2024

2024 Lately I have been wondering about the culinary story of the avocado at the Australian table occasioned by finding Hensley Spain’s 1977 The Avocado Cookbook. When was the first recipe …

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Bill Harney’s Cook Book. An Overlooked Australian Cookery Book
5 August 2024

2024 Bill Harney’s Cook Book first published in 1960 is unique among Australian cookery books on two counts. First, it deals almost exclusively with recipes for cooking native animals and plants. …

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The Evolution of the Classic Aussie Burger (CAB)
30 July 2024

July 2024 Order a hamburger with the lot at a café in Australia and you can expect to get a round white bread roll, halved to contain a beef pattie, a …

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‘Out of Your Peanut Butter Jar’ … some notes on the uses of peanut butter
28 July 2024

2040 I have become enamoured lately of having a peanut butter and banana smoothie on Saturday mornings at the Sydney Park Kiosk. Indulgent? Yes indeed. Delicious ? Also, yes indeed.  It’s got …

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Passionate : The passionfruit in Australia 1890 – 1940
23 July 2024

2024 I recall my first sighting of a passionfruit – first its bruise-purple colour, then the hundreds (so it seemed) of black seeds inside a saffron yellow gel all sitting in …

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‘Every now and again I lust after them’. A brief story of Chocolate Crackles
20 July 2024

July 2024 We got lucky. Rice Bubbles were released by Kellog’s in 1928. Apparently only Australia and New Zealand calls them ‘Rice Bubbles’. To the rest of the world, they are called …

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Tea and Cookery. The Kandy Koola Story
19 July 2024

July 2024 In 1898 a slim (72 pages) cookery book was published by the Kandy Koola Tea company ‘For Presentation To The Ladies Of Victoria.’ The Kandy Koola Cookery Book and …

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Spag Bol: The making of an Aussie icon
15 July 2024

2002 For generations, Australian families have dined at home, with varying frequency, on some version of spaghetti with a sauce of tomato and minced beef. Indeed, spaghetti bolognaise, or spag bol …

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Flour, tea, sugar and sometimes grog. Food in the stories of Henry Lawson.
6 July 2024

2024 Henry Lawson is arguably the pre-eminent male chronicler through his short stories of outback domestic life and the life of a swagman and a shearer in Australia in the last …

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