What foods where eaten in the 1920's in australia?

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Answer 1

The typical food served at a children's party in the 1920s included cocktail frankfurts, fairy bread, cup cakes and cordial. Sound familiar?

    * In 1921 CADBURY set up a factory in Claremont, Tasmania.

    * In 1920 the Australian trifle appeared for the first time.

    * PETERS ESKIMO PIE (ice cream) entered the marketplace in 1923.

    * The 1920s also saw the arrival of PMU tinned food, KELLOGG'S and SANITARIUM.

    * It was a good decade if you were a child with the arrival of VIOLET CRUMBLE, CHERRY RIPE and MINTIES.

    * Another Australian favourite, AEROPLANE JELLY, was launched in 1928.

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Back in the 1920's Blood Oranges were popular in Australia then went out of fashion and trees were removed

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During the depression of the late 1920's and 1930's a cheap source of meat was rabbits. In Australia rabbits were called poor man's mutton and were the mainstay of many families diets. Like potatoes in Ireland, rabbits were cooked in numerous different ways to provide variety.

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Vegemite : This Australian icon was developed in 1922

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Answer 2

Ive got some old cookbooks and wow, if you had flour, eggs, sugar and milk and maybe one or two other things there is a phenominal amount of cakes, biscuts, etc that were made.  

There's also lots of offal recipes that you wouldn't typically see today, e.g. pig's cheek brawn, curried kidneys, corned beef curry, sheep's tongue, sheep or pigs trotters, bullock's hearts.  Lots of rabbit, some kangaroo.  Poultry - chicken, duck, goose, pigeon, turkey.

Preserves and jams, puddings, tapioca, lots of lemons, apples, sultanas, currants.

Lots of "mock" recipes for harder times.

But then again I wasn't actually alive in the 20s - if someone looks at my cookbooks in 100 years' time I can't imagine what they'd think!!

Answer 3

Lots of stews made from lamb or mutton, stodgy veges, like potatoes, sweet potatoes (yams to some) the old rolled roast with the two sticks in it, silverside was another big one with veges put in the same pot, remember they only had ice chests then so couldnt store much meat and when the war was on you only had coupons, my grandma still had some when she died, so one of my aunts still have them, would love to see them, awesome change have been made since, but I love listening to the older generation and their tales of what went on, how safe it was etc., very interesting!