https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Thu, 08 Oct 2020 04:09:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 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/summers-lease-hath-all-too-short-a-date/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/summers-lease-hath-all-too-short-a-date/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 22:00:42 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=11611 Well as we enter the month of March that’s it for Summer! As the weather starts to turn we thought we’d take a look at the fruit trees at Rouse Hill House, and a quick recipe for enjoying a harvest of figs. Enjoy! The first fruit trees recorded at Rouse Hill House were oranges, part […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/summers-lease-hath-all-too-short-a-date/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beating-round-the-bush/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beating-round-the-bush/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:00:11 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=10588 We’re all aware of food fads and trends, especially these days on our quest for anything new, different or with newly identified health attributes (hello kale!). But sometimes food trends are the result of changing technologies, enabling a particular dish or cooking technique to be widely accessed rather than be reserved for restaurants with commercial […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beating-round-the-bush/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-lighter-they-are-the-quicker-they-fall/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-lighter-they-are-the-quicker-they-fall/#comments Wed, 29 Oct 2014 22:00:35 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=10081 When I was a child my dad would confuse me by asking “do you say the yolk of an egg is white or are white?” But it is their yin-yang, rich-light; oily-dry duality that makes eggs such a versatile food. While the sun shines in the yolk it is the whites that bring light to […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-lighter-they-are-the-quicker-they-fall/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/quong-tarts-famous-tearooms/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/quong-tarts-famous-tearooms/#comments Wed, 13 Aug 2014 23:00:26 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=9630 Quong Tart, celebrated in the Celestial City: Sydney’s Chinese story exhibition currently showing at the Museum of Sydney, played a significant part in Sydney’s colonial history. The exhibition explores many aspects of Quong Tart’s life, but he is famously remembered for his tearoom establishments, which helped revolutionise casual dining in the city in the late 1800s. Exhibition curator, […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/quong-tarts-famous-tearooms/feed/ 4 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/i-dined-this-day-with-relish/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/i-dined-this-day-with-relish/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2013 23:00:26 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=5332 June 29, 1846 I dined this day with my respected chief, Lieutenant-General Sir Maurice O’Connell, at his beautiful villa, Tarmons… there were brisk coal fires burning in both dining and drawing-room, and the general appliances of the household, the dress of the guests and the servants, were as entirely English as they could have been […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/i-dined-this-day-with-relish/feed/ 3 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-warming-winter-treat/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-warming-winter-treat/#respond Fri, 07 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=5111 Visitors who braved the wild wintry weather for our Vintage Sunday: Victorian celebration at Vaucluse House last weekend we’re greeted with a warming mulled cider to sip on at the fire kitchen fireside. We’ve had loads of requests for the recipe, and with the long weekend upon us, thought it would be a good opportunity […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-warming-winter-treat/feed/ 0