Prickly pear fruit (needles removed). Photo Jacqui Newling © Sydney Living Museums
The Curator’s recent story, Of palings, palisades and prickly pears, times perfectly with prickly pear fruiting season. Continue reading
Prickly pear hedge guarding the Vaucluse House kitchen garden. Photo © James Horan for Sydney Living Museums
Long before chicken wire, the early colonists had some fearsome options when it came to protecting their salad greens! Continue reading
All the makings of an heirloom salad in the kitchen garden at Vaucluse House. Photo © Stuart Miller for Sydney Living Museums
As the new year kicks in and the temperature rises, January is salad time for most Australians, as a meal in itself or along side anything that can be barbequed! Continue reading
Winter medlars in the Vaucluse House kitchen garden. Photo © Sydney Living Museums
Long Life to that House on the Hill of Rouse! … for comfort peace and mirth,
…and oh the goodly Cream & Pies the Ham – the Fowls – the Custard,
The Rolls & Eggs – that cooked themselves – & don’t forget the Mustard
The Oranges & Marmalade – the Medlars & the damper…. Continue reading
Portrait of Quong Tart (detail), c1880s. State Library of NSW ML1346
This Saturday we’re welcoming in a brand new exhibition at the Museum of Sydney, Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese story with a host of supporting programs enveloped in the theme. Continue reading
Kitchen garden. Photo © Stuart Miller
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 barracks’ soup only contained ‘a slight sprinkling of cabbage leaf’. Continue reading
Young Henry's special Eat Your History brew: Porky's peach prescription
Local artisan brewer, Young Henry’s have concocted a special brew to celebrate our exhibition Eat your history: a shared table which opens this weekend at the Museum of Sydney. Its novel name, Porky’s Peach Prescription, hints at its historical connections with early colonial Sydney. Continue reading
Lilly pilly tree. Photo Jacqui Newling © HHT
Meroogal has several productive fruit trees, including a native lilly pilly (or lilli pilli), which towers over the house on its southern side. You can see it just to the left of the house in this welcoming image. Continue reading
Elderflower. Photo Scott Hill © HHT
Right on cue, as we were setting the dates for the ‘Punches, cordials and refreshers‘ workshops that are held this month, magnificent heads of elderflower appeared in the herb garden at Vaucluse House. Continue reading
The Museum of Sydney and Edge of the Trees by Janet Laurence. Photo © Brett Boardman
February’s focus is Museum of Sydney – MoS to locals – and the site it occupies, which was where the colony’s first Government House was located. Continue reading