Tag: technology
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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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Ever hot-ish
We loved baking on the weekend, and Mum was happy for us to do it, but there was always this caveat: ‘you’ll have to get the oven hot first’. I learned to cook on our 30-year old farm wood combustion stove. That’s it pictured above, just before it was replaced in the 1990s. It taught me some…
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Toast
One of my favourite childhood memories is of waking up at my grandparents’ house when we stayed in school holidays. Tucked under our flannelette sheets up the cold end of the house, we could hear the door to the kitchen open (it had a distinctive creak). From that door came the signals of early morning: the radio on the…
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