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Annie Dickinson’s Cornish Pasties
Cornish Pasties are the nation dish of Cornwall in the United Kingdom. They were popular with miners because they were easy to eat whilst having a break from work underground. Cornish miners came to Australia in the 1850’s during the Gold Rushes and introduce pasties to Australia. Annie Dickinson’s husband, Charles, was a gold miner in Bendigo, Victoria in the 1900s. The family moved to Broken Hill in 1915 and Charles worked as a miner for BHP until the late 1930’s. Annie often cooked these pasties for her husband to take to work with him. Traditionally the pastry for this tasty tr…
Project Announcement – Family Recipes
Announcing a new Readers Hub Project... the Family Recipe Project
We all have a favourite family recipe. Maybe it was something your grandmother made. Perhaps it’s a national dish from your birth country. We are such a multicultural country, a people who enjoy food from around the world. Can you send us a favourite recipe? We will post it on this website so our readers can all try it and give a review. The hundred best recipes will be published in book form.
This project is open until 31st July 2013.