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/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/yana-nura/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yana-nura/#respond Wed, 22 Jan 2020 23:00:25 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=21019 A native garden among the skyscrapers Yana Nura, “to walk on Country” is a native garden at the Museum of Sydney that invites visitors to reflect, reconnect and learn about Aboriginal culture, past and present, on Gadi Country. Located on the outdoor mezzanine that overlooks the site of Australia’s First Government House and the area […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/yana-nura/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/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/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/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-2/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-2/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:30:09 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=13213 This week we’re back at Elizabeth Bay House, in one of Sydney’s grandest dining rooms. After the departure of the Macleays, Macarthur-Onslows and Michaelises, its years as a reception house and then as flats, the ‘Lion of Sydney’ began its new life as a house museum. But, as this continuing ‘Then and Now’ series shows, […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-2/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kristen-allans-ricotta/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kristen-allans-ricotta/#respond Sun, 31 Mar 2019 22:32:13 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20253 If you joined us at Autumn Harvest you may have been part of Kristen Allan’s cheese-making workshop. Everyone was after her ricotta recipe, and she’s been kind enough to share it with us! We’ve featured Kristen’s cheese-making and ricotta before, but its well worth a repeat. Ricotta is incredibly easy to make, and can be […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kristen-allans-ricotta/feed/ 0 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