https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:50:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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/the-art-of-tea-and-tea-as-art/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-art-of-tea-and-tea-as-art/#respond Wed, 30 Jan 2019 23:00:48 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20023 The restorative power and ritualised nature of tea, whether elegantly poured from a pot into a fine china cup, or a bag languishing in a mug on a kitchen bench or work-desk gives inspiration to many of the artists who have entered works in the Meroogal Women’s Art Prize.  The works below give just a taste […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-art-of-tea-and-tea-as-art/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-perfectly-bucolic-idyll/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-perfectly-bucolic-idyll/#comments Fri, 27 Jul 2018 00:30:22 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19637 This winter, as the sun sets over the cows and farm paddocks at Rouse Hill, it’s hard not to wax lyrical over the picturesque, bucolic scene. Hang on, over the… what now? The pastoral tradition The Western tradition of depicting an idealised, sentimental and even romantic rural life in poetry and art is ancient, and […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-perfectly-bucolic-idyll/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-icing-on-the-cake/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-icing-on-the-cake/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2018 01:16:55 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18909 With love in the air for Valentine’s Day and the flurry of ‘yes’ responses to marriage throughout the community, Sydney Living Museums’ Unlocked magazine (circulated to SLM Members) has a strong focus on romantic unions. Unsurprisingly, our interest in weddings turns to celebratory breakfasts and cake. Tot Thorburn’s wedding cake Known as ‘Tottie’, Kennina Thorburn, who lived at […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-icing-on-the-cake/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/let-them-eat-fruit-cake/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/let-them-eat-fruit-cake/#comments Wed, 13 Dec 2017 23:00:53 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18475 The once ubiquitous fruit cake, which was available by the slice at the counters of many a tearoom, cafe or corner shop – may become a Christmas-time only indulgence. Regular readers of The Cook & the Curator will know that plum puddings were not limited to the festive season, but enjoyed throughout the winter months […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/let-them-eat-fruit-cake/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/plan-now-for-the-all-new-all-electric-kitchen/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/plan-now-for-the-all-new-all-electric-kitchen/#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:00:13 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18714 I’ve been spending time at Meroogal lately as we wrestle with the collection stocktake. This magazine cutting certainly caught our attention! Wife… or housewife? We’ve talked before about the acquisition of 20th century appliances, culminating in the story of the electric refrigerator at Meroogal. That post came about from the last full stock-take, back in […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/plan-now-for-the-all-new-all-electric-kitchen/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-search-for-mrs-gaffney-c-1890s-tamworth/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-search-for-mrs-gaffney-c-1890s-tamworth/#respond Thu, 13 Jul 2017 00:30:16 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17780 Regular readers may remember we’ve been on a quest to identify some of the contributors the Meroogal manuscript recipe collection. The recipes appear to date from the 1890s. We do feel we might be on the right track for the source of the ginger cake recipe -Mrs Nisbett, whom we’ve traced to Molong, NSW. Two other […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-search-for-mrs-gaffney-c-1890s-tamworth/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/sago-plum-pudding/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sago-plum-pudding/#respond Wed, 15 Jun 2016 00:00:33 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=15111 With the winter solstice almost upon us my thoughts shift to foods that warm and nourish the soul. The Christmas style plum pudding was always intended as mid-winter fare and this variation on the plum pudding theme is simple to make, rich tasting and truly comforting to eat. An heirloom recipe The sago pudding recipe […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sago-plum-pudding/feed/ 0 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