Baking & cooking
History with flavour
Good food and generous hospitality were part of the rhythms of domestic life at Rouse Hill House. A collection of cookbooks and handwritten recipes accumulated over more than a hundred years remains in the house, and provides a taste of the family’s culinary repertoire through times of boom and bust
My Handy Kitchen, c.1950-55
In this film a woman discusses and demonstrates the features of her up-to-date kitchen
Don’t forget your homework
In a simple ruled exercise book, with margins drawn neatly in red ink, are over 60 pages of handwritten recipes, cooking rules and techniques, recorded by 12 year old Jenny (Dolly) Youngein, 104 years ago
Kids in the kitchen
Get the kids cooking with recipes that have delighted families for generations! Foraged from the history books of our houses these recipes are sure to delight the young mind
Convict Sydney
Cooking cauldron
The watery stew eaten by convicts at the Hyde Park Barracks was boiled in giant communal cast-iron pots