The perfect recipe for a Trove Community cookbook

Discover some of the favourite recipes amongst the Trove Community
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Trove is jam-packed full of wonderful recipes and there’s always something new to discover in our range of vintage cookbooks. Over the last few months, you’ve shared some of the new favourite recipes you’ve discovered on Trove.  

What recipes should we include in a collaborative cookbook? 

In this blog we’re listing a few wonderful recipes to create a digital cookbook of sorts. Join us as we uncover the right ingredients for this digital Trove Community cookbook. 

Biscuits  

A few of the most popular recipes were for biscuits. Whether they were enjoyed on their own or with a hot beverage, the community loves the way the cookie crumbles!  

Recipes for ginger nuts and Venetian biscuits.
Bread and biscuits : supplement to the "Australian home journal", Australian Home Journal, 1930, nla.obj-451461296  


 Gingernuts are a community favourite biscuit that we need in our cookbook. The only question here is what kind of tea are you going to dunk them in? 

A step by step double page spread on how to make shortbread.
‘How to Make Shortbread The Real Stuff as I’ve Learnt it', The Australian home beautiful: a journal for the home builder, 1 January 1953, nla.news-article2980746602 

Of course, a Trove Community cookbook needs a wonderful shortbread recipe.  

An ad for Brockhoff biscuits with a recipe for chocolate ripple cake.
‘Advertising', The Australian Women’s Weekly, 7 February 1962, nla.news-article47508257 

Over the years one of the ways people have discovered new recipes is on the packaging of their favourite grocery items. One of these recipes is the Brockhoff Chocolate Ripple Cake. Discover the recipe for this community favourite.  

We also sifted through ABC Weekly to find the Fielders Corn Flour sponge cake which was another much-loved cake.  

An ad for Fielder's cornflour with a recipe for a sponge cake.
‘Advertising', ABC Weekly , 16 February 1946, nla.news-article1271551169  

Flummery  

A newspaper clipping for a passionfruit flummery recipe.
‘Passionfruit Flummery', Warwick Daily News , 16 March 1946, nla.news-article191273159 

A much-loved Trove Community budget treat is flummery, a whipped gelatine dessert made with evaporated milk. While it may be a less common recipe today, it is still a treasured dish from childhood for many Trove users.  

There’s so many delicious recipes for flummery that you can find on Trove.   

 

Dishes that are worth their salt  

A newspaper article under Glamor and gastronomy for Spanish rice.
‘Glamor and gastronomy Try this Spanish Rice', The Argus, 10 September 1955, nla.news-article71694610 

A Trove Community member loved this recipe for Spanish Rice (you might know this better as Paella) from The Australia Women’s Weekly.  

A recipe for a whipped egg dish.
‘Recipes', The Capricornian, 14 April 1900, nla.news-article68199540  
 

In The Capricornian, we found another ‘tried and tested’ recipe that’s so simple it wasn’t even given a name.  

A recipe for Afrikaans Beef Custard.
The Woman's Mirror cookery book : a selection of 2,000 recipes from The Australian Woman's Mirror Sydney: The Bulletin, 1937, nla.obj-3079257154 
 

In our ‘a world of recipes’ blog the “Afrikaans beef custard” recipe piqued the Trove Community’s interest. While the name given to this recipe is showing the cookbook’s age. This South African culinary classic is more commonly known as Bobotie, a curried beef casserole topped with egg custard.  

Did you know you can create your own cookbook with lists in Trove? With over 920,000 results for recipes in Trove you’re spoilt for choice!