https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook Eat Your History Wed, 22 Dec 2021 01:44:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/zesty-flavours/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/zesty-flavours/#respond Wed, 07 Nov 2018 23:00:38 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19838 Rose Seidler’s recipes reflect a penchant for citrus flavours – from marmalade to cakes and desserts. There are three different orange cake recipes – one of them appearing twice: typed in German and also jotted down in English at the very front of Rose’s ‘sweet’ dishes book, suggesting she liked it to be easily accessible when required. […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/zesty-flavours/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-taste-of-rose-seidlers-recipes/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-taste-of-rose-seidlers-recipes/#respond Wed, 24 Oct 2018 23:00:32 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19792 I’ve spent many a happy hour in the kitchen lately, cooking from recipes that belonged to Rose Seidler. They have been gifted to the Rose Seidler House collection thanks to the generosity of Penelope Seidler, AM, wife of Rose’s son, Harry, who no doubt enjoyed many of the dishes recorded in them. In good order […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/a-taste-of-rose-seidlers-recipes/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/three-fruit-marmalade/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/three-fruit-marmalade/#comments Wed, 10 Oct 2018 23:00:16 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=19750 When life gives you lemons – and grapefruit and oranges – it’s time to make marmalade! For this batch I’ve used a recipe from the small collection of manuscript recipes that belonged to Rose Seidler, dating to the 1950s or 60s. Citrus trees grow well in Sydney, and many a householder would make marmalade to […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/three-fruit-marmalade/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/more-than-just-cutlery/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/more-than-just-cutlery/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 23:00:50 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18739 ‘Well that’s the one thing that Viennese of course take great pride in, is knives, forks, cutlery’… [1] Harry Seidler, 2003  From the curtains to the coffee table to the cutlery – every object and fitting in the house Harry Seidler designed for his parents – Rose Seidler House, now open as a museum – was […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/more-than-just-cutlery/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/joanna-nicholas-curator/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/joanna-nicholas-curator/#respond Wed, 08 Nov 2017 22:58:19 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18757 Joanna Nicholas is Curator in the House Museums Portfolio, responsible for Vaucluse, Elizabeth Bay and Rose Seidler Houses. She is passionate about the immersive experiences house museums can provide for visitors – the power of their collections, gardens and grounds.Joanna has been a Curator at Sydney Living Museums for over fifteen years, with roles at  the […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/joanna-nicholas-curator/feed/ 0 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/plan-now-for-the-all-new-all-electric-kitchen/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/plan-now-for-the-all-new-all-electric-kitchen/#comments Thu, 02 Nov 2017 05:00:13 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18714 I’ve been spending time at Meroogal lately as we wrestle with the collection stocktake. This magazine cutting certainly caught our attention! Wife… or housewife? We’ve talked before about the acquisition of 20th century appliances, culminating in the story of the electric refrigerator at Meroogal. That post came about from the last full stock-take, back in […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/plan-now-for-the-all-new-all-electric-kitchen/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/rose-seidler-a-wonderful-hostess/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/rose-seidler-a-wonderful-hostess/#comments Thu, 26 Oct 2017 00:00:47 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18694 ‘My parents both lived here very happily for 25 years I think.’ Harry Seidler, 2003 [1] In the next few months we will be spending time at Rose Seidler House and working with curator Joanna Nicholas to get a glimpse of European émigré tastes and lifestyle in the 1950s and 60s. Rosa or Rose Seidler (nee Schwarz) […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/rose-seidler-a-wonderful-hostess/feed/ 1 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eating-modern/ https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eating-modern/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2017 22:00:37 +0000 https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/?p=18514 We’re ‘thoroughly modern’ here at SLM, with The Morderns: European designers in Sydney and Marion Hall Best: interiors exhibitions in full swing at Museum of Sydney. Modernism came into its own on our shores with European émigré architects, interior designers and furniture makers working in the 1930s to 1960s. Not only did modernism change the way we […]]]> https://blogs.sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/cook/eating-modern/feed/ 0