Mrs Beeton's Christmas plum pudding. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums
Yes, it’s pudding time again! We’ve been busy boiling traditional Christmas Plum Puddings, made from an 1861 Mrs Beeton’s recipe, for Colonial gastronomy workshops and upcoming Christmas events. Continue reading
Holding a favourite collection piece. Detail of photograph (c) Paolo Busato for Sydney living Museums
This weekend is the last chance to see the beautiful exhibition The Artist & the Botanical Collector: The lost works of Lovegrove & Bäuerlen at the Museum of Sydney. It’s inspired me to write about beautiful works of botanic art in our collections, found on a magnificent dessert service. Continue reading
Dinner bowl (reconstructed) used in the Hyde Park Asylum for aged and destitute women, 1862-1886, excavated from beneath the floorboards at Hyde Park Barracks. UF9831c. Photo © Jamie North
Archaeology Honours reasearcher Kim Connor joins us again with her recreation of a typical dinner served to women living in Hyde Park barracks in the Destitute Asylum and Immigration Depot in the 1880s. Continue reading
What is the best ever piece of table paraphernalia? Photo (c) Scott Hill for Sydney Living Museums
I may be slightly biased in this, but today I’m talking about the guaranteed, best-ever, most superb piece of dining accoutrements ever – grape scissors! Continue reading