https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Wed, 09 Oct 2019 05:36:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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/museum-marmalade-preserving-the-past-in-the-colonial-kitchen-at-vaucluse-house/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/museum-marmalade-preserving-the-past-in-the-colonial-kitchen-at-vaucluse-house/#respond Thu, 20 Apr 2017 00:00:43 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17985 Adding some flavour to their labour, the staff at Vaucluse House have been adding some colour to the pantry under the stairs in the colonial kitchen. Museum guide, Nicole Sutherland takes us through the process:  Sweeten up! Peek into the pantry of the colonial kitchen at Vaucluse House and you will see a host of […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/museum-marmalade-preserving-the-past-in-the-colonial-kitchen-at-vaucluse-house/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-oily-business/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-oily-business/#comments Thu, 23 Mar 2017 00:00:52 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17873 We’ve chatted before about the prodigiously old olive tree at Elizabeth Farm. This past week it did something very unexpected – it bore fruit! The olive tree beside the carriage loop at Elizabeth Farm is quite likely the oldest in the country, planted in 1805 having been brought back to the colony from Europe by […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-oily-business/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/all-a-buzz-with-honey-from-the-kitchen-garden/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/all-a-buzz-with-honey-from-the-kitchen-garden/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:00:00 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16789 A hive of industry, and busy as a bee – the work of the humble ‘bumble’ and ‘honey’ bee is extraordinary – their efforts providing honey for sweet treats, such as the honey toffee (recipe below) and bees wax, highly coveted for candles in our colonial past. But more importantly, bees are integral to agriculture, […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/all-a-buzz-with-honey-from-the-kitchen-garden/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/of-spinage-silverbeet-and-swiss-chard/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/of-spinage-silverbeet-and-swiss-chard/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2016 00:30:44 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16389 At Elizabeth Farm we’re gearing up for the Spring Harvest festival on the 25th of September, and the chard is putting on a fine show! Spinnage and spinach SPINACIA, Spinach, or Spinage. … There are two or three varieties of Spinach cultivated in the kitchen-garden. The common Spinach, intended for winter use, should be sown […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/of-spinage-silverbeet-and-swiss-chard/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-apple-a-day/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-apple-a-day/#respond Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:00:02 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=15221 Before you crush all your apples into cider as the Curator had us doing last week, we thought we’d celebrate ‘Eve’s fruit’ with some tried and tested family favourites from our heritage kitchens. We’ve featured apple hedgehogs and apple snow in more summery posts, but Apple Charlotte, pictured above, and Auntie Tottie’s Apple cake make perfect autumnal fare.  She’ll be apples […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-apple-a-day/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/birds-of-a-feather-rosella-jam/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/birds-of-a-feather-rosella-jam/#respond Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:00:54 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=13622 Taking advantage of the relative calm that the new year has brought, I’ve been savouring some of the manuscript and heirloom recipes in our collections. Expect to find in the next few weeks a thatched roof pie, a meat souffle and sago plum pudding, but today’s pick is ‘Rosella Jam’. A family legacy This diminutive piece […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/birds-of-a-feather-rosella-jam/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yes-we-have-some-bananas-bananas-and-plantains-jan-14/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yes-we-have-some-bananas-bananas-and-plantains-jan-14/#comments Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:30:08 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14442 By the 1830s colonial gardens in New South Wales featured a wealth of exotic plants that in Britain were only found in costly hothouses, including that staple of the fruit bowl, the sweet banana and its cousin the plantain. Remember Godfrey Mundy’s dinner at Tarmons? “A delicate wing of the wonga wonga pigeon with bread […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yes-we-have-some-bananas-bananas-and-plantains-jan-14/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/i-see-you/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/i-see-you/#respond Wed, 06 Jan 2016 23:30:34 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14501 The chickens at Rouse Hill are prodigious layers – and take advantage of one especially broody colleague! As a general rule we haven’t given names to the chickens at Rouse Hill House – this follows the infamous “night of the fox” a few years ago. The exceptions have been the roosters – the very magnificent […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/i-see-you/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/pantry-pickles/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/pantry-pickles/#respond Wed, 02 Dec 2015 22:00:48 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14212 Latoya Schadel shares one of the pleasures of working in the Vaucluse House team: I just love our days at Vaucluse House when we begin the working day with a walk through the bountiful kitchen garden. Sometimes, when produce is at its peak, our gardeners bring us a basket full of goodies to sample. Eggs from […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/pantry-pickles/feed/ 0