https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Sun, 31 May 2020 22:57:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/proof-in-the-pudding/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/proof-in-the-pudding/#respond Thu, 07 May 2020 00:00:59 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=21321 Every well-used cookbook has a page that naturally falls opens from constant attention, or tell-tale food splatters or splodges that show evidence of popular use. What’s yours? Indelible evidence In Emma Rouse’s 1863 edition of Beeton’s book of household management, which remains in the family collection at Rouse Hill House & Farm, the carrot pudding […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/proof-in-the-pudding/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/anzac-cookery/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/anzac-cookery/#respond Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:00:17 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=21256 Anzac Day, April 25, will be very different for many of us this year, as we won’t be following commemorative marches or gatherings to mark the event due to public health concerns. But we can still take pause to reflect on the ways we support front line workers – whether Anzac ‘digggers’ or today’s health […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/anzac-cookery/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/isolation-baking-for-the-long-weekend/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/isolation-baking-for-the-long-weekend/#respond Thu, 09 Apr 2020 01:46:53 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=21265 While we all ‘holiday at home’ this April, why not try baking your own hot cross buns?  Who can resist diving into that (Easter) rabbit hole that is Trove!  We just love that priceless archive of Australian newspapers provided by the National Library (NLA) – and have been having a look at celebrated food traditions at discussed in Easter-time […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/isolation-baking-for-the-long-weekend/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/annual-eel-festival/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/annual-eel-festival/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2020 23:00:45 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=21082 Each autumn we celebrate Darug culture at our annual Eel Festival at Elizabeth Farm at Parramatta. This family-friendly event honours Parramatta’s namesake, the eel, and its significance to the local Burramattagal people, who would gather in autumn to trade goods and share stories and food. Darug people have been harvesting eels from local waterways for […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/annual-eel-festival/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/spring-harvest-festival-elizabeth-farm-2/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/spring-harvest-festival-elizabeth-farm-2/#respond Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:45:22 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19724 “It is now Spring, & the Eye is delighted with a most beautiful variegated Landscape – Almonds – Apricots, Pear and Apple Trees are in full bloom. The native shrubs are also in flower, & the whole Country gives a grateful perfume.” Elizabeth Macarthur to her friend Miss Kingdon, Parramatta, 1798  Our annual Spring Harvest […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/spring-harvest-festival-elizabeth-farm-2/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/polly-put-the-kettle-on-and-lets-have-fish/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/polly-put-the-kettle-on-and-lets-have-fish/#respond Wed, 10 Jul 2019 08:17:47 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20343   Last year we talked about those confusing and interchangeable words baking and roasting, and got to grip with table- and soup spoons. They’re far from the only confusing words used in the historic kitchen and household, so today I’m starting a series of posts looking at the vast range of pots and pans you […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/polly-put-the-kettle-on-and-lets-have-fish/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/vote-1-the-sausage-sizzle/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/vote-1-the-sausage-sizzle/#respond Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:50 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20353 With a Federal election being held across the nation this weekend, we’ve been having a bit of fun discussing the idea of the ‘Democracy Sausage’ which was deemed Australia’s Word of the Year for 2016, by the The Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra. Crowd pleaser Loved by kids and adults alike, of all walks of life, as […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/vote-1-the-sausage-sizzle/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-cheese-fondu/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-cheese-fondu/#comments Thu, 02 May 2019 04:08:56 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20129 No, it’s not a spelling error… One of my favourite indulgences from our colonial past is a cheesey ‘fondu’. This is not to be confused with the northern European ‘fondue’ that was (re)discovered by Australians in the 1970s, but a dish from The English and Australian Cookery Book for the many and the Upper Ten Thousand (my […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-cheese-fondu/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/autumnal-fare-at-rouse-hill-house-farm-this-sunday/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/autumnal-fare-at-rouse-hill-house-farm-this-sunday/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 06:10:38 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20233 Well there’s no rest for us! Barely is the the 2019 Eel Festival over at Elizabeth Farm than we’re heading up the Windsor Road to Rouse Hill House for the next event on the SLM food festival – Autumn Harvest! Talk, taste and take home This Sunday, from 9am till 3pm it’s Autumn Harvest at […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/autumnal-fare-at-rouse-hill-house-farm-this-sunday/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eel-festival-2019/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eel-festival-2019/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2019 23:00:50 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20014 Kicking off this year’s Aboriginal Cultural Calendar is our annual Eel Festival on Sunday 3 March at Elizabeth Farm which celebrates the seasonal migration of eels, or burra in local language, into Darug Country.Along with live music and dance performances, weaving and painting workshops and diverse conversations around the yarning circle, there will be opportunities to […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eel-festival-2019/feed/ 0