Comments on: Blancmange in its many forms

By: mayday

mayday — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 12:51:00 +0000

Yes. It was in the arcade. I will look for the photos.

By: The Cook

The Cook — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 06:23:00 +0000

Hello, thank you for your memories of the ice chest being at the kitchen door, in the arcade, I’m imagining? I believe it is still in the cellar – ‘The Curator’ wrote as story about it titled ‘Cold comfort’ in May 2014 – you may recognise it in the photos.
The reference for Nina’s blancmanges being chilled in the well was from a Rouse family member’s oral history. We have other reports of the same technique being followed at Meroogal when there was no ice in their chest in the early 1900s.
You would have to balance the food carefully – you wouldn’t want to let a blancmange or jelly slip, or drop one down too deep!

By: mayday

mayday — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 11:51:00 +0000

I doubt very much that Granny Terry (Nina) would have done something as extreme as placing the blancmange in the well outside. When I was a child (60 years ago) there was an ice chest that stood outside the kitchen door. Many years later the ice chest was moved to the cellar (which was the last place I saw it).

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By: The Cook

The Cook — Sun, 15 Jun 2014 07:40:00 +0000

Alison has pursued her interest in blancmange and its history on her blog, http://onecrumbatatime.blogspot.com.au/2014/04/biancomangiare.html
Seems we’re on a mission to revive another forgotten culinary favourite…