https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:05:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-2/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-2/#respond Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:30:09 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=13213 This week we’re back at Elizabeth Bay House, in one of Sydney’s grandest dining rooms. After the departure of the Macleays, Macarthur-Onslows and Michaelises, its years as a reception house and then as flats, the ‘Lion of Sydney’ began its new life as a house museum. But, as this continuing ‘Then and Now’ series shows, […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-2/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/add-one-tablespoon/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/add-one-tablespoon/#respond Mon, 07 May 2018 00:30:47 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19213 We’re all familiar with recipes that call for ‘a tablespoon’ of an ingredient – but what exactly does that mean? I think I’ve mentioned before that curators are the worst people to watch period dramas with. It’s always “Romans didn’t use forks!” this, and “use a slops bowl!’ that, and my personal bugbear – “That […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/add-one-tablespoon/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-spot-of-shopping-before-we-head-home/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-spot-of-shopping-before-we-head-home/#comments Mon, 21 Aug 2017 03:25:16 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18424 This week John Macarthur is heading home to Sydney after eight years away. That’s means it’s time to go shopping! Getting lost in the Macarthur archive is quite easy. Sitting near my desk at Elizabeth Farm are a row of folders crammed with excerpts painstakingly put together by historian Joy Hughes (who deserves a medal […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-spot-of-shopping-before-we-head-home/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-festive-table/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-festive-table/#comments Wed, 14 Dec 2016 02:00:42 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17331 As we delight in the edible joys on offer at our annual Christmas artisan food fare at Hyde Park barracks, it is interesting to reflect on what our colonial counterparts were putting on their tables for Christmas.  Festive fare Certainly the obligatory turkey, ham and festive plum pudding may have been front and centre on the colonial […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-festive-table/feed/ 2 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 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-bit-on-the-side/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-bit-on-the-side/#comments Thu, 26 May 2016 01:00:50 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=15360 If you’re out at Rouse Hill this weekend for the Autumn Harvest you may see the dining table set with some unusually-shaped dishes, can you guess what they’re for? The service, much of which remains, is a plain white, with a carmine red border stripe and thin gilt border. In the storeroom is a large […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-bit-on-the-side/feed/ 2 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/setting-the-macarthurs-table-at-the-spring-harvest-festival/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/setting-the-macarthurs-table-at-the-spring-harvest-festival/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2015 23:30:44 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=13918 Recently we celebrated the Elizabeth Farm Spring Harvest festival. It was a great day of artisan food, talks and demonstrations, and lazing about in deckchairs. In the dining room we looked at one of my favourite topics – historic table settings – and visitors had a go at creating a table setting that evoked a […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/setting-the-macarthurs-table-at-the-spring-harvest-festival/feed/ 3 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-the-book/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-the-book/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:00:05 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14084 Handwritten recipes passed through the generations, tales of goats running wild in colonial gardens and early settlers’ experimentation with native foods… Eat your history dishes up stories and recipes for Australian kitchens and dining tables from 1788 to the 1950s. Jacqui Newling, resident gastronomer at Sydney Living Museums, invites you to share forgotten tastes and […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eat-your-history-the-book/feed/ 4 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-1/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-1/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2015 00:00:31 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=13182 Of all the dining rooms in Sydney Living Museums properties, perhaps none have had so many incarnations as that in the Lion of Sydney – Elizabeth Bay House.By looking at just this one room we can watch as the house changes owners, uses and appearance. Today I’m looking at the dining room in the early […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-bay-house-part-1/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-farm/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-farm/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:30:03 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=12947 The dining rooms that visitors experience at our properties are very different: some are relatively intact, some are complete recreations, while some are evocative interpretations.  Today I’m looking at the dining room at Elizabeth Farm, and how it was known by the Macarthurs, by the 20th century Swann family, and how we experience it today.  […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/then-and-now-the-dining-room-at-elizabeth-farm/feed/ 1