Category: Products
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Ice treats
There’s been a bit of a hiatus at Rhubarb Sago, while we moved house. We’re now in a Geelong suburb settled in the first few decades of the twentieth century. Out walking, I came across this sign on the wall of an old shop front. It’s hard to be sure, but I reckon it could date back to…
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Curried favour
This was going to be a post about eggs, but I got distracted by curry. It happened like this. When you start fossicking around newspapers in Trove for egg recipes, curried eggs feature pretty heavily, right back to the late nineteenth century. While my experience of curried egg mainly involves sandwich fillings, these recipes largely involve a curry…
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Golden syrup
The Italians make a biscuit called “brutti ma buoni” – ugly but good. This describes the golden syrup dumpling perfectly. In spite this blog’s name I’m not much of a sweet tooth. But a recent wintry weekend and a visit home from the uni student demanded a warm and substantial dessert. So golden syrup dumplings it was. They’re affectionately…
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A bit about butterine
It seems Australians have been getting steamed up about butter substitutes for more than 100 years. Margarine (sometimes called oleomargarine or oleo) was invented in France around 1870. I always assumed it didn’t take hold in Australia until the 1940s, when butter became scarce under wartime rationing. In fact Melbourne was home to a ‘butterine’ factory in Yarraville in 1885, pretty much under where…
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