Meatloaf is a great winter meal to serve with mashed potato. It backs up well cold, and sometimes Rosemary would put it in sandwiches for us the next day. It’s one of the first recipes she taught me to cook. The very first lesson she gave me was how to make a piping hot cup…
Category: Baking
Tea (No Eggs – No Butter) Loaf
Rosemary loved a good tea cake to feed her hungry family. Her cinnamon tea cakes were always super delicious. This one is an “eat-the-same-day” recipe, and is handy for people who can’t eat eggs. She neglected to put the cooking time on the recipe, so you will have to judge for yourself. I’m guessing 20-30…
Mum’s Pavlova
I’ve made this recipe a bunch of times and it always works. I think it’s the little things that Rosemary taught me: make sure the egg whites are at room temperature, make sure your mixing bowl is small and super clean, no oil residues. It was generally a summer or christmas dessert, but occasionally she…
Peach Kuchen Country Style
This was one of her all time favourites. I loved it, but found it extremely rich after about the third slice! The image shows more of a peach pie, but Rose made her kuchen in a lamington tin, so it looks like a peach slice. I still have the very same tin in my kitchen,…
Best Moist Fruit Cake
Rosemary had a love for cake, which she handed on to her children. It grew from the important routine of morning and afternoon teas, which broke up the long days of manual labour on the farm. In her early married life, she used a boiler and an old wringer to do the washing. She often…
Ro’s Scones
Rosemary’s scones filled many a hungry stomach on the farm at morning tea time. Whether she was making them for a team of shearers or her visiting city friends, she would bundle them up in a bright, fresh tea towel, pop them in a basket, and serve them with jam, butter, and cream and steaming…
The Flying Vicomtesse 