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Cooking with Society’s Elite

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Tried, Tested and True: Stories and Recipes Celebrating the Traditions of Australian Community Cookbooks
Tried, Tested and True

By Liz Harfull

Published 2018

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‘It is a generally accepted fact that a recipe for which a successful hostess is famous can’t be found in an ordinary recipe book. Nor can you coax it from her. It is always a closely guarded secret.’ So begins the book jacket blurb for a sophisticated volume of recipes put together in 1958 to support an ambitious campaign raising money for cancer research.

We Cook at Home is not your everyday community cookbook. Featuring recipes from Melbourne’s social elite and priced at one guinea, it was clearly aimed at the upper echelons, or those aspiring to join them. The hardcover book even carried photographs of table settings created by the wives of some of Melbourne’s leading figures, so readers could replicate them at home. Among the contributors were the governor’s wife, Lady Brooks, and Merlyn Myer, the widow of Sidney Myer who founded the famous Myer retail company.

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