https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Wed, 03 Jul 2019 02:42:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/vote-1-the-sausage-sizzle/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/vote-1-the-sausage-sizzle/#respond Thu, 16 May 2019 00:00:50 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=20353 With a Federal election being held across the nation this weekend, we’ve been having a bit of fun discussing the idea of the ‘Democracy Sausage’ which was deemed Australia’s Word of the Year for 2016, by the The Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra. Crowd pleaser Loved by kids and adults alike, of all walks of life, as […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/vote-1-the-sausage-sizzle/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/blazing-saddles/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/blazing-saddles/#comments Thu, 21 Jun 2018 00:00:24 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19194 Now rarely seen in its traditional form, a saddle of lamb or mutton was a prestigious cut of meat that was highly fashionable on colonial tables in the late 1800s. Tell ‘tail’ signs As the name suggests, the saddle is cut from the back of the animal, and the saddle meat is quite familiar to us, […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/blazing-saddles/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/what-shall-we-have-for-dinner/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/what-shall-we-have-for-dinner/#comments Thu, 15 Jun 2017 00:00:39 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18228 I was recently invited to give a talk for the New South Wales Dickens Society. I had no hesitation accepting, not as an aficionado of Dickens literary works, but because Charles Dickens’s wife Catherine (nee Hogarth), published a book of menus in the 1850s.  Revised in 1854, the book had several print runs, and was […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/what-shall-we-have-for-dinner/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-picnic-at-lucknow/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-picnic-at-lucknow/#respond Thu, 04 May 2017 00:00:33 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18035 On the Queen’s birthday holiday on Tuesday May 24, 1887, the miners at the Wentworth goldfields experienced a ‘unique and enjoyable event’ – a picnic with their families, hosted by the mine manager, Henry Newman and his wife.  Inspired by this occasion of ‘enjoyment, recreation and pleasure’ a family picnic day was held at the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-picnic-at-lucknow/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-gourmet-in-the-gold-mines/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-gourmet-in-the-gold-mines/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 00:00:15 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=8384 If I was going to do a ‘Julie and Julia’, the book I’d want to work through is Modern cookery for private families, first published 1845 by Eliza Acton’s (1799-1859). It is written with eloquence and grace, and with practical descriptions of mid-1800s English cookery. It was sold in bookshops in the colony, and was the ‘go to’ cook […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-gourmet-in-the-gold-mines/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/lets-katchup-sometime/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/lets-katchup-sometime/#respond Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:00:01 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17819 There are few households in Australia that would not have a bottle of tomato sauce in the pantry cupboard, or, in those that do not, some kind of savoury sauce such as Worcestershire or HP. More recently, the ubiquitous tomato sauce is being called tomato ‘ketchup’ – the term used for it in the USA. While […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/lets-katchup-sometime/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/reconstructing-dinner-in-the-hyde-park-barracks-destitute-asylum/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/reconstructing-dinner-in-the-hyde-park-barracks-destitute-asylum/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2016 23:00:43 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16830 Archaeology Honours reasearcher  Kim Connor joins us again with her recreation of a typical dinner served to women living in Hyde Park barracks in the Destitute Asylum and Immigration Depot in the 1880s.  If breakfast and supper in the Destitute Asylum and the Immigration Depot were boring and repetitive, dinner (served at 1 pm) was the one […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/reconstructing-dinner-in-the-hyde-park-barracks-destitute-asylum/feed/ 3 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/gather-in-to-grace-our-feast/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/gather-in-to-grace-our-feast/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2016 22:00:59 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16516 In September 1879 Sydney presented itself on the world stage by hosting an ambitious International Exhibition, which ran until April 1880. The exhibition was held  with typical Victorian pomp, in an expansive, purpose-built ‘Garden Palace’ located on Sydney’s foreshores, in the Botanic Gardens. The exhibition at the Garden Palace is the focus of Jonathan Jones, winner of the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/gather-in-to-grace-our-feast/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/and-the-wheels-go-round/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/and-the-wheels-go-round/#respond Thu, 21 Apr 2016 00:00:34 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=15365 Though it seems the weather in Sydney is never going to cool down, its time to look at apples: from apple Charlotte cake to chutney, and a baked apple recipe that kids will love to try for mothers day. But first its cider time! Cider: i. all kinds of string liquors except wine; this sense […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/and-the-wheels-go-round/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/milling-about/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/milling-about/#comments Wed, 02 Mar 2016 23:00:59 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=12499 No city is without its skyscrapers, and Sydney is no exception. All eyes seem to be on the current developments at Barangaroo on the western foreshores below Millers Point, which itself was named after the sailed flour mill run by John Leighton – known as ‘Jack the Miller’. This, and the many other mills that sprang […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/milling-about/feed/ 1