https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Thu, 31 Aug 2017 23:13:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-colonial-kitchen/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-colonial-kitchen/#comments Wed, 30 Aug 2017 23:00:47 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18269 While we’ve been dishing up small tasty morsels about food in colonial Australia, local Sydney author Charmaine O’Brien has created a banquet of tastes, both culinary and social, in her latest book, The Colonial Kitchen: Australia 1788- 1901. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). Taking us from hearth-side cookery in bushman’s huts to the most elegant dining rooms in […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-colonial-kitchen/feed/ 4 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/thatched-house-pie/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/thatched-house-pie/#respond Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:00:46 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=13882 Calling all cooks! I’ve had mixed success replicating old recipes, some working out better than others. Of late, a Thatched House Pie has proved to be something of a challenge for me, and is my current culinary conundrum. A version of this pie is one of the many recipes in a manuscript of household recipes compiled […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/thatched-house-pie/feed/ 0