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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To finish, some recipe names to bring on nostalgia or astound you.

Shirley's Orange Cake
Rosemary's Reliable Carrot Cake
Rod's Bloody Hot Tomato Sauce
Rainbow Cake
Pumpkin Damper
Pineapple Jam
Pickled Eggs
Petticoat Tail Shortbread
German Yeast Cake
Gingernuts
Peanut Butter Swirl Slice
Norm's Water Sponge
Lamingtons
Jubilee Twist
Jenny's Jam Drops
Sponge Roll
Dolly Varden Cake
Ginger Cake
Grape Jam
Anzac Biscuits (proper flat ones!)
Ginger Fluff
Genoa Cake
Pasties (country style)
Sausage Rolls
Lemon Slice
Cumquat Marmalade
Nestor's Yeast Buns
Boiled Fruit Cake
Cinnamon Coffee Cake
Jam Rolls
Honey Biscuits
Rote Grutze (from the Barossa of course)
Cockles
Chocolate Orange Swirls

There goes the diet!!!!

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The second unique feature is the recipes that are as old fashioned as can be, but that were part of my childhood and hold so many memories. They are mostly sweet dishes, with some pickles, chutneys and sauces to balance the sweetness. Jams, marmalades, cakes, muffins, slices, scrolls, puddings... There are a few breads and dampers too.

Looking through these books is the same as looking through photo albums - such memories and such nostalgia.

Liz also has a new cookbook out, Tried, Tested and True, which I'll review in a day or two.

.... TBC... ⬇️

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