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Alison Vincent

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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, CQUniversity Australia

View of the town of Parramatta from May’s Hill, ca. 1840. Painting attributed to G. E. Peacock. State Library New South Wales

April 28, 2022

Fern syrup, stewed eel and native currant jam: this 1843 recipe collection may be Australia’s earliest cookbook

Jacqueline Newling, University of Sydney and Alison Vincent, CQUniversity Australia

A chance encounter in the National Library of Australia’s digital archive holds clues about an 1843 cookbook published in Parramatta.

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