A hand picked collection of favourites to celebrate the Autumn Harvest at Rouse Hill House & Farm, 31 May 2015.
Kristen Allans ricotta demonstration. Photo © Luisa Brimble for Sydney Living Museums.
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! Continue reading
Delicious fresh figs braised in Rouse Hill honey. Photo © Scott Hill
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! Continue reading
'Rapid' rotary egg beater, c1950s. Photo © Sydney Living Museums
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 equipment, trained chefs or a fleet of kitchen hands (or servants as the case may have been in centuries past). Continue reading
Apple hedgehog. Photo Jacqui Newling © Sydney Living Museums
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 many a dish, including omlets, meringues and snows. Continue reading
Quong Tart teapot (detail). Private collection. Photo © Jamie North for Sydney Living Museums
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. Continue reading
Tarmons, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, Residence of Sir Maurice O'Connell (detail), George Edwards Peacock, 1845. Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW: ML 148
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 in London… Continue reading
Jacqui Newling in the kitchen at Vaucluse House. Photo © James Horan
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. Continue reading