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A Sunday soup and a Christmas pudding
Oct 25–31, 2026
The month closes on the 1864 book's festive cooking — an almondigos soup, a Bakewell pudding, and almond biscuits — with a roast leg of mutton in the middle, a cold lamb salad to use the leftovers, and a rice dish on the Friday.
This is a present-day menu assembled from historical cookbook records — the 1864 English and Australian Cookery Book and the 1893 Art of Living in Australia — and it is a source-led sampler, not a claim that this exact week is traditional or representative of how every Australian household ate. The recipes are adapted for modern kitchens, with quantities restated in modern units and the method compressed; the 1864 book is an English colonial book as much as an Australian one, and reads that way.
The Australian Table dinner week
The Australian Table dinner week
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Each dinner is adapted from a public domain record in the Open Recipe Archive collection; the card’s source link carries its original cookbook and record. These dishes reflect authentic period techniques and ingredients, organized into a practical weekly dinner plan.