https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:05:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/bullseye-in-search-of-sydneys-first-colonial-kitchen/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/bullseye-in-search-of-sydneys-first-colonial-kitchen/#respond Thu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:24 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20577 While the Curator rattles the pots and pans, I’m looking at the cooking ‘apparatus’ upon which they were used at various points in time. We’ve recently looked at domestic hearth cookery from the early 1800’s, but today I’m taking us to the First Fleet encampment at Sydney Cove in 1788. A hand-drawn ‘map’ of the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/bullseye-in-search-of-sydneys-first-colonial-kitchen/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-birthday-feast/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-birthday-feast/#respond Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:37:10 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20407 This week marks the 200th anniversary of the Hyde Park convict barracks, and local ‘convict’ students joined the Governor of New South Wales, the Honourable Margaret Beazley to celebrate. Huzza! Huzza! Huzza! Coinciding with the King’s Birthday on June 4, 1819 – the biggest event on the Georgian calendar – governor Lachlan Macquarie, his wife […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-birthday-feast/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-diet/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-diet/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:32:42 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=7947 According to Francois-Maurice Lepailleur, a convict living at the Hyde Park barracks in 1840, “You don’t starve but you’re always hungry.” So what did convicts eat at Hyde Park barracks in the when it was home to over 600 male convict workers at any one time? Convict rights Convict workers were entitled to basic food each […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-diet/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/colonial-traipsings/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/colonial-traipsings/#respond Wed, 11 Mar 2015 23:30:53 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=11667 I had the decidedly good fortune to be in Tasmania last week, taking in some of the convict and heritage areas around Hobart. With so many Georgian buildings, Hobart itself offers a glimpse of what the Sydney Cove settlement would have looked and felt like in its very early days. Early autumn is a perfect […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/colonial-traipsings/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beef-and-plum-pudding-and-a-rummer-of-good-punch/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beef-and-plum-pudding-and-a-rummer-of-good-punch/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:00:14 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=8697 Huzza! June 4, the King’s birthday was a big day in the diary in the Georgian and Regency period. The day traditionally brought a great level of feasting and revelry, even in far-flung Sydney. But there was double celebration on this day in Sydney 1819, when Governor Macquarie presided over the official opening of Hyde Park […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beef-and-plum-pudding-and-a-rummer-of-good-punch/feed/ 3 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/shattered-remains/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/shattered-remains/#respond Wed, 09 Apr 2014 23:00:45 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=7872 The history of Rouse Hill House and Farm is recorded in many ways: in text, in photographs, in the landscape, structures and their contents – and in the archaeological remains that dot the site. These humble glass fragments evoke the site’s earliest European occupancy. Unearthed during conservation work at the potting shed, located in the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/shattered-remains/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yo-ho-ho-and-45000-gallons-of-rum/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yo-ho-ho-and-45000-gallons-of-rum/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2013 22:00:44 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=7211 For many of us, rum, or brandy perhaps, is the (bottled) spirit of Christmas! And Christmas isn’t Christmas at our place without Rum balls (recipe below). But a couple of hundred years ago in this colony, rum was universal. Our guest blogger this week is Fiona Starr, curator of Hyde Park Barracks and The Mint. […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yo-ho-ho-and-45000-gallons-of-rum/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-vegetable-garden/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-vegetable-garden/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2013 22:00:07 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=6078 It was the government’s responsibility to house, clothe and feed the convicts who were lodged at Hyde Park Barracks.  Their rations consisted of meat, flour (baked into bread), maize meal cooked into ‘hominy’, tea and sugar. The rations were to be supplemented with fresh vegetables, but one convict named Charles Cozens wrote that in 1840, the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-vegetable-garden/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/convicts-breakfas/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/convicts-breakfas/#comments Thu, 11 Jul 2013 23:00:00 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=5517 Breakfast at the barracks While Sydney’s ‘toffs’ tucked into a leisurely breakfast – anything from freshly laid eggs to kedgeree, smoked ham or cured tongue, sometimes as late as 11am, the convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks would have had to settle for a dish of dreaded hominy, a porridge made from maize, or corn […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/convicts-breakfas/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/escapee-tea/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/escapee-tea/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:00:46 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=3110 By 1788 the taking of tea, that very British ritual, was enjoyed universally, even in the poorest households. Although tea was available for sale in Sydney from at least 1792, it was not yet considered a ‘necessary’ and therefore not included in convicts rations for another 30 years. But rather than going without, the early colonists found their own […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/escapee-tea/feed/ 3