Old Australian Cook Books

Who says we don’t have culinary heritage. The library of NSW is exhibiting cookbooks from our pioneering days that include recipes for bandicoots, kangaroo brains and black swans.

“Even less appetising is a recipe in Australia’s first known cookbook, dating from 1864, for a dish called ’slippery bob’, consisting of kangaroo brains mixed with flour and water then fried in emu fat.”