https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Mon, 23 Nov 2020 22:46:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-diet/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-diet/#respond Thu, 29 Jun 2017 00:32:42 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=7947 According to Francois-Maurice Lepailleur, a convict living at the Hyde Park barracks in 1840, “You don’t starve but you’re always hungry.” So what did convicts eat at Hyde Park barracks in the when it was home to over 600 male convict workers at any one time? Convict rights Convict workers were entitled to basic food each […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/the-convict-diet/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sharing-the-joy-with-pudding/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sharing-the-joy-with-pudding/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:00:15 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=17108 Judging by the fashionable dress of the women in Mrs Macpherson’s plum pudding class shown above, the traditional plum pudding was a standard requirement, if not the centrepiece, on all the best tables. But in the true spirit of Christmas, our archives tell us that the less fortunate were also tucking in to the classic plum […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sharing-the-joy-with-pudding/feed/ 1 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/bread-and-dripping-an-institution/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/bread-and-dripping-an-institution/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2016 00:00:17 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16425 Kim Connor is currently undertaking an internship at Hyde Park barracks as part of her research project ‘Feeding the confined’ for her honours studies in archaeology at Sydney University.  Kim’s particular interest is the diet of the women at Hyde Park barracks when it was the Immigration Depot and the Destitute Asylum between 1848 and 1886. […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/bread-and-dripping-an-institution/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kim-connors-intern-hyde-park-barracks/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kim-connors-intern-hyde-park-barracks/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:59:23 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=16409 Kim Connor is an Honours student in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Her thesis, ‘Feeding the confined’ is an analysis of the animal bone from Hyde Park barracks in order to investigate the diet of the women of the Immigration Depot and the Destitute Asylum (1848-1886). By studying the bones, I’m […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/kim-connors-intern-hyde-park-barracks/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/that-was-the-year-that-was/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/that-was-the-year-that-was/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2015 23:00:32 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14593 Its been a huge year for us at The Cook and the Curator and for SLM:Food! This year we published 68 blog posts that ranged from artichokes to shaddocks, suet to long lunches, and from sideboards to the elusive “discourse of dinnerware” and some ‘then and now’ features that we hope to add to in […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/that-was-the-year-that-was/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/christmas-fare/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/christmas-fare/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2015 22:01:38 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=14436 ’tis the season! Instructed by Mrs Beeton I’ve had plum puddings on the boil for various Christmas gatherings and for visitors to sample at our annual Christmas Fare, being held next week at the World Heritage listed Hyde Park Barracks Museum. So save the date – Thursday December 17 from 4 pm – 9 pm – a […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/christmas-fare/feed/ 2 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/sizzling/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sizzling/#respond Wed, 02 Jul 2014 23:00:00 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=8695 Now that we’re expert in the fine art of roasting, lets try our hand at broiling! Broil: To drefs or cook by laying on the coals, or before the fire. Samuel Johnson, 1755. You probably don’t realise it, but many of us use this technique routinely – at the barbecue! [1]  While today its meaning […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/sizzling/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beef-and-plum-pudding-and-a-rummer-of-good-punch/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beef-and-plum-pudding-and-a-rummer-of-good-punch/#comments Tue, 03 Jun 2014 23:00:14 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=8697 Huzza! June 4, the King’s birthday was a big day in the diary in the Georgian and Regency period. The day traditionally brought a great level of feasting and revelry, even in far-flung Sydney. But there was double celebration on this day in Sydney 1819, when Governor Macquarie presided over the official opening of Hyde Park […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/beef-and-plum-pudding-and-a-rummer-of-good-punch/feed/ 3