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Christmas puddings: when age-old customs meet decimal currency | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). Paul Koonin, Russion spy, doctor or soy bean expert? Christmas puddings: when age-old customs meet decimal currency. December 14, 2011. In April 1966, Miss Una Clarkson, Miss Barbara Lynch and Mrs Strachan conducted experiments on a set of six Christmas puddings. 8216;The Christmas pudding making season is almost with us, and another age-old custom is being threatened. Before long there will be no silver coins suitable for puttin...
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Letters | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). People used to send each other letters instead of emails. The National Archives has lots of letters – people writing into government, and government officials writing back. There are quite a few ‘concerned Australians’ who wrote into the government who have had their letters stored for future generations. I hope future generations enjoy them. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). Enter your ...
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Minutes | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). Public Servants still write minutes to one another. Goodness knows why. However, if they want someone else to make a decision about an important matter, they write a minute. Archives are full of minutes. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. A rich sauce indeed! Enter your ...
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Typewriter | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). Women working in the typing pool for a government department around 1950. In this case they were working on the construction of the Snowy-Hydro scheme – a room in Alexandria, Sydney. NAA: A11016, 325. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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screamingmothers | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). Christmas puddings: when age-old customs meet decimal currency. December 14, 2011. In April 1966, Miss Una Clarkson, Miss Barbara Lynch and Mrs Strachan conducted experiments on a set of six Christmas puddings. Half were steamed, and the other half were boiled. Following an age-old tradition, the three cooks carefully inserted in … Continue reading →. Paul Koonin, Russion spy, doctor or soy bean expert? September 10, 2011. There must...
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Promoting the wonders of soybeans | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). New Year’s Eve – thoughts on scotch whisky and haggis. Making school children drink milk →. Promoting the wonders of soybeans. March 29, 2011. Who was Dr Paul M Koonin? Do a Google search on him and you’ll find him quoted extensively on alternative medicine websites.You can find examples here. Who was Dr Paul M Koonin, the man who wrote an entire book in 1941 to promote the virtues of soybeans? It wasn’t just countries that did...
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Paul Koonin, Russion spy, doctor or soy bean expert? | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). Grocery shops were different then…. Christmas puddings: when age-old customs meet decimal currency →. Paul Koonin, Russion spy, doctor or soy bean expert? September 10, 2011. Earlier this week I did a radio interview about the subject of one of my favourite blog entries, Paul Koonin. You can hear my radio interview here. And can you can read my original blog entry here. This entry was posted in 1910s. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Glossary | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). Here’s a glossary of terms for archival research. These are handy terms to know if you want to search the Archives yourself, or just if you want to know where this blog’s food-related files are from. National Archives of Australia. Have you ever wondered what the ‘cc’ stands for when you ‘cc’ someone into your email? It stands for ‘carbon copy’. This is is another old piece of technology – a sheet with carbon on...People used to send...
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Reports | Archival Sauces
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Food from the National Archives of Australia. About me (and this blog). You may remember getting your school reports after you’d completed a school year – it’s a similar principle. Has a public servant done something? They haven’t done it properly until they’ve written at least one report about it. Archives are full of reports. But don’t expect to find out what. Happened in the report you will have to look elsewhere in the files for that. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Biscuits for ...