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/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 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/an-autumnal-air/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-autumnal-air/#respond Thu, 03 May 2018 00:00:34 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19472 This weekend at Rouse Hill House and Farm we welcome in the culinary delights that the cooler weather brings at our Autumn Harvest Festival.  The season’s finest There’s plenty of action on this historic colonial estate, including free family-friendly tours, talks, workshops and artisan food products from local producers and providores and live entertainment from the fun-loving Vegetable […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/an-autumnal-air/feed/ 0 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/a-very-straight-back-on-a-very-high-chair/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-very-straight-back-on-a-very-high-chair/#comments Thu, 28 Sep 2017 00:00:56 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18588 In the schoolroom at Rouse Hill House an engraving shows a child’s birthday party in full swing – with the very real risk that some of the party-goers will end up on the floor! The engraving is titled ‘Many Happy Returns of the Day’, after the original 1856 genre scene by the well known Victorian painter […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-very-straight-back-on-a-very-high-chair/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-sticky-tune/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-sticky-tune/#respond Thu, 11 May 2017 03:45:52 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18089 Connections to food turn up in the most unexpected places – but you’d usually hope it wasn’t in a piano! Out at Rouse Hill we’ve had the conservators in over the past few days, dealing with that perpetual curse of the house museum: mold! A combination of hot and wet weather, and still air, can […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-sticky-tune/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/smashing/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/smashing/#respond Thu, 13 Apr 2017 00:30:22 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17962 At Rouse Hill House the stories of food and dining are told in oral histories, recipe books and manuscripts, stacks of plates and shelves of glassware – and in the site’s rich archaeological remains.This week we’re in the middle of a series of extensive works to upgrade services at the site, and ensure the preservation […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/smashing/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-most-superb-best-ever-dinner-table-gadget/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-most-superb-best-ever-dinner-table-gadget/#comments Wed, 02 Nov 2016 23:30:12 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16946 I may be slightly biased in this, but today I’m talking about the guaranteed, best-ever, most superb piece of dining accoutrements ever – grape scissors! In praise of ‘grape scissors’! Admittedly it’s because I just love using my own pair, and when they get wheeled out at dinner parties no-one’s ever seen them before and […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-most-superb-best-ever-dinner-table-gadget/feed/ 5