Four Fruit Marmalade

There were few luxuries in Margaret Munday’s household when she was growing up in the 1940s and ’50s. The second of eight children, her parents farmed about 330 kilometres east of Perth, near the isolated community of Hyden.

‘It was a long way from anywhere,’ says Margaret. ‘Mum had to go to the nearest hospital in Kondinin (almost two hours’ drive away) a week before the babies were due, because it was too far to wait