Comments on: A treasure trove of cookery books

By: mayday

mayday — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 09:56:00 +0000

Glad to be of help!

By: The Cook

The Cook — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 23:56:00 +0000

Thank you for picking this up, I have amended the text accordingly. And for the extra information about Emma’s Aunt. The Mrs Beeton book would have been a generous gift, possibly a belated 21st birthday present for Emma? Despite the poor condition of the book, the inscription from Mrs Kennerley survives in the title page. with kind regards, Jacqui

By: mayday

mayday — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 06:49:00 +0000

There are a few corrections to this story. Nina Rouse married George Alan Terry (not Samuel – who was GA Terry’s father!), and who had inherited Box Hill from his father. The person that gave Emma Rouse the Mrs Beaton cookbook was her aunt (Jane Kennerley, nee Rouse (1809-1877) (she was a daughter of Richard Rouse)). Jane married Alfred Kennerley in 1834, they lived at The Retreat, aka Kelvin, Bringelley before moving back to England and then returning to live in Tasmania, where he became Premier (1873-76)

By: Cold comfort | The Cook and the Curator | Sydney Living Museums

Cold comfort | The Cook and the Curator | Sydney Living Museums — Fri, 16 May 2014 09:24:54 +0000

[…] a recipe for a pink strawberry blancmange. Over the years it’s collected the loose board of a Mrs Maclurcan’s cookbook, but is actually ‘Warne’s every-day cookery’, possibly dated 1872 [3]. […]