The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken

Were I asked to name the one industry on which the prosperity of Australia must sooner or later rest, I should unhesitatingly answer, "On the cultivation of the vine." And this...

Anyone looking backwards upon the history of Australia cannot fail to be impressed by one peculiar feature, which is the more distinctive, too, because it is in striking contras...

The larger part of this work is taken up with a consideration of the most suitable diet for those living in Australia. In this way a greater restriction in the amount of butcher...

The principal methods of cooking meat are roasting, baking, boiling, stewing, broiling, braising, and frying. Of these methods roasting and baking are conducted on the same prin...

In all probability there are but few who have ever had their attention called to certain figures duly set forth within the pages of that mine of information, namely, Mr. T. A. C...

The consumption of fish as a daily article of food is not nearly so large as it ought to be if we studied our health. It must be admitted that it is much more expensive than mea...

* Bones--3d. * * Vegetables--1d. * * Total Cost--4d. * Beef bones are the best for this stock; break them up very small with a chopper, put them into a large saucepan and cover...

It has been estimated that the external skin of an ordinary adult is equal to an area of about twelve square feet, and that in a tall man it may be as much as eighteen square fe...

Although for some years past any information pertaining to salads and salad-making has been eagerly welcomed by the writer, yet it must be admitted that great difficulties in ob...

Australia, forming as it does a vast island continent in the Southern world, lies to some extent within the tropical range, for the Tropic of Capricorn traverses its northern pa...

* 6 Apples--3d. * * 1 1/2 oz. Tapioca--1/2d. * * 1/2 Lemon--1/2d. * * 2 oz. Sugar * * 1 1/4 pints Water * * A few drops of Cochineal--1/2d. * * Total Cost--41/2 d. * * Time--Hal...

* 6 Tomatoes--2d. * * 1/4 lb. Veal Forcemeat--2d. * * 1 oz. Cheese--1 1/2d. * * 6 pieces Fried Bread--1/2d. * * Total Cost--6d. * * Time--10 Minutes * Choose tomatoes of a good...

* 1 Onion * * 1 Apple * * 1/2 oz. Flour * * Lemon Juice * * Salt--1d * * 1/2 oz. Curry Powder * * 1 oz. Butter or Dripping * * 1 pint Gravy--1d * * Total Cost--2d. * * Time--Hal...

It is somewhat curious that, among the many questions which pertain to the national life of Australia, little, if any, attention has been directed to the influences which the da...

Now, if all houses were built in accordance with the requirements of modern sanitary ideas, there would be but little difficulty in grappling with the problem of bedroom ventila...

This comes last alphabetically of the five essentials concerned in the maintenance of health--namely, ablution: the skin and the bath; bed-room ventilation; clothing; diet; and...

It is worth considering somewhat minutely what are the requisites of perfect clothing, and what properties our different kinds of wearing apparel possess. Without doubt any refl...

Furnishing the kitchen is often looked upon as quite of secondary importance; but, instead of being last and least, it ought to be first and foremost, for a cook cannot be expec...

"An ice chest!" someone exclaims. "I should like to know how I am to get that." Well, very easily indeed, if there is a will to have one, for then the way is plain. A refrigerat...

The stock pot is indispensable to good cooking, and although many soups and sauces can be made with water as a foundation, nearly all of them are improved by using stock, and no...

A few introductory remarks on this subject will serve a useful purpose. It will be seen that I have referred to the alphabetical pentagon of health--which is purely a provisiona...

When once the principle of the stock pot is understood the first excuse falls through, for in any ordinary households the stock can be made from bones and trimmings of meat, and...

Fruit fortunately abundant in Australia--The agreeable qualities of fruits reside in three factors--Fruit must neither be over-ripe nor under-ripe--The anti-scorbutic properties...

functions of the skin--The skin itself and its different parts--The use of the scarf skin--The structure of the true skin--The perspiration tubes--The tubes of the oil-glands--G...

warmth of itself--The varying powers of clothing to detain air in its meshes--Two or three layers of clothing always warmer than a single garment equal to their combined thickne...

plainly intended for Australian use--Many people miss the present in looking for the future--Cookery of the highest excellence amongst all classes in France--A contrast between...

DIETARY. "With time and care Australia ought to be the vineyard of the world"--Interesting facts in the early history of the vine in Australia--Figures showing the possibilities...

IMPROVEMENT. Food usually in harmony with climate, except in Australia --Isothermal lines of Australian cities, Southern Europe, and southern portion of United States--Australia...

fisheries in Australia, although her people come from a maritime stock--The defectiveness of our Australian fish supply--Our primitive methods of fish capture--The beam-trawl in...

hitherto unrecognised by the people of Australia--Reasons advanced for this statement; early gold-mining era influences still at work, and Anglo-Saxon heredities--Hot months and...

removes debris from the system--Bodily health the great desideratum of the present day--Will power increased by exercise--Exercise improves the quality of the blood--Exercise st...

DAILY LIFE. Enormous consumption of meat and of tea in Australia--A contest between a semi-tropical climate and Anglo-Saxon heredities-- Progressive changes in the theories of e...

the house--necessity for proper ventilation--Extra allowance of sleep in hot climates--Crowding of articles in bedrooms condemned--Results of breathing vitiated air--Injuriously...