Tried,Tested and True / Liz Harfull

Having looked at the 2 Blue Ribbon cookbooks by Liz Harfull (see ⬆️ ) , it is worth completing the trio with her latest book.

🇦🇺 Tried True and Tested is a collection of recipes from community cookbooks, the ones that were very common mid to late last century. Accompanying the recipes are gorgeous stories of the people who contributed them. Not only does it contain those recipes we grew up with, it is another book that showcases Australian food history. You can see it on Liz's website https://www.lizharfull.com/lizs-books/tried-tested-and-true/

True to the form of the community cookbooks I had, often published by church-affiliated women' groups and the Country Women's Association, this book contains mostly sweet recipes and meat recipes. There were very few veg recipes in those books! I used to have quite a few from my Aunties.

Tried Tested and True, by Liz Harfull
Published: 2018
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Pages: 320
Price: Around $25AU, beginning to be scarce. Ebook is available and can be cheaper.

Recommended by lovers of older recipes and of Australian food history.

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#HettyMcKinnon says "For a bouncy, firm texture, simmer your tofu for a few minutes". Now I know why I love steamed tofu so much - I guess it is similar.

https://www.epicurious.com/expert-advice/boil-tofu-for-a-bouncy-firm-texture

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Listen, I know it’s a polarizing viewpoint and all that but stay with me here: I love Vegemite.

That stuff is delicious. On toast, in recipes. Love.

#vegemite #australianfood

It's not often I do the 4-things-on-a-plate type of meal, but today lunch was just this, and pretty tasty. It's called the Fresh Aussie 😆 and consists of

* chard cooked with pine nuts (from the freezer, made last winter)

* avocado

* tomato salsa - tomatoes, spring onions, evo, coriander, walnuts

* freekeh and burghul cooked together, mixed with parsley

* all sprinkled with some nori, sesame seeds and sea salt all ground together (home made furikake).

Inspiration came from Aussie Food by Bill Granger - he used eggs and some non-veg stuff. So I substituted the freekeh mix and the vegetarians best friend, walnuts, in the salsa.

Delicious.

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Oh shouty! Hello there! About a million* others have mentioned this US variation of the #AustralianDrink already in the comments.

I guess I didn't really make it clear in the first post (but it's abundantly clear in the threads and sub-threads) that we were discussing the #Australian drink called a Spider. We don't do root beer here.

*Slight exaggeration (but only slight) 🤣

#SpiderDrink #food #australianFood

and of course, just as I close off a topic, I find some more information about the Australian drinks called Spiders.

In the wonderful book Australia, The Coookbook, by Ross Dobson, he says that they were first called "Gunn's Gully Spider". The name Spider stuck, but we dropped the Gunn's Gully.

It seems Gunn's Gully is/was in Victoria.

Ross commits the unforgivable sin of adding the ice cream first 😀

This book, all 400 pages of it, contains everything you ever thought of as Australian and all the popular recipes throughout the last century, and longer. It is fabulous.

Attached is TROVE article.

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Thanks to everyone who joined in the threads and sub-threads of the Aussie drink and its many variations, called Spiders. I hadn't expected such nostalgia and also attachment to your most favourite base soft drinks.

I did some reading - the US seems to claim the origin of mixing ice cream with soft drink, but I am not sure. I think the British, renown for mixing all sorts of things with their alcohol a couple of centuries ago (and calling them Spiders) - the premise is that the Spider as we know it today, emerged from there.

So here's to the nostalgic but awesome Aussie Spider. I picked up some creamy soda last night to see me through the week of hot hot weather ahead.

Thanks again.

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To tempt or inspire you today - I chose pasta and walnuts as we've been discussing that combination during the week.

A perfect summer salad of cooked and cooled short pasta, roasted red (and optionally orange) capsicums, toasted walnuts, basil leaves and olive oil. Fresh goat's cheese or Bulgarian feta is optional. Simple, quick, delicious, Summer.

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The crumbed lamb cutlets production line.

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