In the first half of the 20th century, before fast foods (except for fish and chips) appeared in Australia, home cooking, family dinners and cut lunches ruled the day.
Mothers spent their time in the kitchen and, except for a brief period during World War II, they stayed there.
They inherited recipes from their own mothers, and shared them as well with relatives and friends.
Although many of the recipes and cooking practices were typically English, many came from the Irish, the Chinese who tried.
Harrow And Heston The fair dinkum cookbook: aussie food as it used to be, paperback/colin heston
