https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Mon, 06 Sep 2021 23:46:22 +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/the-third-drawer-down/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-third-drawer-down/#respond Tue, 01 Oct 2019 06:04:56 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20765 While we’re mainly looking at the pots and pans in this series on the colonial batterie de cuisine, it’s a good time for a diversion into all the miscellaneous bits and pieces in a kitchen – all those things we keep in the ‘third drawer down’. The auction and trade catalogues we looked at last […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-third-drawer-down/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/turning-up-the-heat/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/turning-up-the-heat/#comments Thu, 05 Jul 2018 00:30:43 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19518 Last week the air at Elizabeth Farm was rich with the aroma of Indian curries cooked on the wood stove. Part of the experience of visiting Elizabeth Farm is the evocative smell of spices and cooking. On weekends when visitors walk in to the kitchen the aroma from a frypan of onions sizzling in a […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/turning-up-the-heat/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/take-5/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/take-5/#respond Thu, 17 May 2018 00:30:03 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19489 Last Friday at Elizabeth Farm we celebrated the connections between Australia’s oldest European house and India with a night of Bengal sugar – and rum punch! The program was part of the 2018 Heritage Festival, and ran in conjunction with the exhibition Tales from the East: India and New South Wales, which is on now […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/take-5/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/add-one-tablespoon/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/add-one-tablespoon/#respond Mon, 07 May 2018 00:30:47 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19213 We’re all familiar with recipes that call for ‘a tablespoon’ of an ingredient – but what exactly does that mean? I think I’ve mentioned before that curators are the worst people to watch period dramas with. It’s always “Romans didn’t use forks!” this, and “use a slops bowl!’ that, and my personal bugbear – “That […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/add-one-tablespoon/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-best-cooking-apparatus-in-the-whole-world/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-best-cooking-apparatus-in-the-whole-world/#respond Fri, 02 Feb 2018 01:56:31 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16039 The sweltering days we’ve had recently have put me in mind of a cook standing in front of a roaring open fire. So with that in mind, (drum-roll please) – it’s time to introduce “The most compact, clean, and best cooking apparatus in the whole world!” At Elizabeth Farm we haven’t been lighting the kitchen […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-best-cooking-apparatus-in-the-whole-world/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eating-modern/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eating-modern/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2017 22:00:37 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18514 We’re ‘thoroughly modern’ here at SLM, with The Morderns: European designers in Sydney and Marion Hall Best: interiors exhibitions in full swing at Museum of Sydney. Modernism came into its own on our shores with European émigré architects, interior designers and furniture makers working in the 1930s to 1960s. Not only did modernism change the way we […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eating-modern/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/give-us-our-dairy-bread/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/give-us-our-dairy-bread/#respond Thu, 12 Jan 2017 12:25:02 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16861 “Where are you going to, my pretty maid? I’m going a milking sir, she said” This verse is written on the back of the above image of Margaret Ross Steel (nee Macgregor) by its photographer, James Barnet Steel, whom this pretty maid married in 1912. Their daughter, June Wallace, was the last of the family […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/give-us-our-dairy-bread/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/devilish-dish-for-halloween/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/devilish-dish-for-halloween/#respond Wed, 26 Oct 2016 23:00:08 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16920 If you’re celebrating Halloween this weekend, add some devilishly simple ‘devilled bones’ to the menu (recipe below). They make a nice change from the now ubiquitous honey-soy chicken legs and winglets, and are great for kids and adults alike. Hot as Hades ‘Devilled’ foods have been popular since the 18th-century, but like many simple dishes, […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/devilish-dish-for-halloween/feed/ 0