The Art of Living in Australia Together with Three Hundred Australian Cookery Recipes and Accessory Kitchen Information by Mrs. H. Wicken
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AUSTRALIA—ONE AND UNITED. AS AN AUSTRALIAN I DEDICATE THIS VOLUME TO THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA WITH ONE ABIDING HOPE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL THE: GREAT NATURAL FOOD INDUSTRIES OF OUR COUNTRY.
PREFACE.
EPIGRAPH
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. Their semi-tropical climate hitherto unrecognised by the people of Australia—Reasons advanced for this statement; early gold-mining era influences still at work, and Anglo-Saxon heredities—Hot months and cooler months; temperatures of the Australian capital cities—Fluctuations of temperature and barometric pressure not extreme—Equability of Australian climate a marked feature—Not many successive days of great heat—Humidity of atmosphere in different colonies—A dry heat always preferable to a moist heat—Duration of the different seasons, and months apportioned to each season—Prevailing winds, and ROLE of hot winds
PART I.
THE ART OF LIVING IN AUSTRALIA
CHAPTER I. THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER II.
THE ALPHABETICAL PENTAGON OF HEALTH FOR AUSTRALIA.
CHAPTER III.
ABLUTION—THE SKIN AND THE BATH.
THE HAIR.
THE NAILS
THE TEETH
CHAPTER IV.
BEDROOM VENTILATION
CHAPTER V.
CLOTHING, AND WHAT TO WEAR.
CHAPTER VI.
DIET
FRUIT
TEA
COFFEE
ICED DRINKS
TOBACCO
CHAPTER VII.
EXERCISE
CHAPTER VIII.
ON SCHOOL COOKERY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE AUSTRALIAN DAILY LIFE.
"BAD COOKERY DIMINISHES HAPPINESS, AND SHORTENS LIFE."—WISDOM OF AGES.
PROGRESSIVE CHANGES IN THE THEORIES OF EDUCATION.
THE PURPOSE OF EDUCATION.
COOKERY INSTRUCTION IN ENGLAND, NEW SOUTH WALES, AND VICTORIA.
COOKERY IN ITS RELATION TO HEALTH.
COOKERY AS A PREVENTIVE OF DRUNKENNESS.
COOKERY IN THE FORMATION OF CHARACTER.
A NATIONAL PLEA ON BEHALF OF AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL COOKERY.
CHAPTER IX.
AUSTRALIAN FOOD HABITS AND THEIR FAULTS.—A PLEA FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT.
CHAPTER X.
AUSTRALIAN FISH AND OYSTERS—AND THEIR FOOD VALUE.
THE DEFECTIVENESS OF OUR AUSTRALIAN FISH SUPPLY.
OUR PRIMITIVE METHODS OF FISH CAPTURE.
THE BEAM-TRAWL IN DEEP-SEA FISHING.
DRIFT-NET AND OTHER DEEP-SEA FISHING.
BENEFITS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF OUR DEEP-SEA FISHERIES.
FISH MARKETS OF SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE.
THE "MIDDLEMAN" CONTROVERSY.
THE DISTRIBUTION OF FISH TO THE PUBLIC.
FISHMONGERS AND THE SALE OF FISH.
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OYSTER.
THE FAILURE IN THE NEW SOUTH WALES AND VICTORIAN OYSTER SUPPLIES.
THE RE-CREATION OF OUR OYSTER FISHERIES.
THE FOOD VALUE OF THE OYSTER.
THE FOOD VALUE OF FISH.
CHAPTER XI.
ON SALADS; SALAD PLANTS AND HERBS; AND SALAD MAKING.
"A SALAD IS A DELICACY WHICH THE POOREST OF US OUGHT ALWAYS TO COMMAND."
CHAPTER XII.
ON AUSTRALIAN WINE, AND ITS PLACE IN THE AUSTRALIAN DAILY DIETARY.
"WITH TIME AND CARE AUSTRALIA OUGHT TO BE THE VINEYARD OF THE WORLD."— GREATER BRITAIN.
THE CLIMATE.
THE SOIL.
"CEPAGE," OR VARIETY.
THE GROWING OF THE GRAPE—THE PREPARATION OF THE SOIL.
THE GROWING OF THE GRAPE—LAYING OUT THE VINEYARD.
THE GROWING OF THE GRAPE—WHETHER TO PLANT CUTTINGS OR ROOTED VINES.
THE GROWING OF THE GRAPE—THE HEIGHT OF THE VINE ABOVE THE GROUND.
THE GROWING OF THE GRAPE—ON PRUNING.
THE MAKING OF THE WINE—THE CELLAR.
THE MAKING OF THE WINE—THE GATHERING OF THE GRAPE.
THE MAKING OF THE WINE—VARYING ADDITIONS TO THE MUST.
THE MAKING OF THE WINE—THE MUST ITSELF.
THE MAKING OF WINE—FERMENTATION.
THE TASTING AND JUDGING OF WINES.
UNIFORMITY IN AUSTRALIAN WINES.
THE FUTURE SUCCESS OF THE AUSTRALIAN WINE INDUSTRY—AND UPON WHAT IT DEPENDS.
PART II.
AUSTRALIAN COOKERY RECIPES AND ACCESSORY KITCHEN INFORMATION.
CHAPTER XIII. THE KITCHEN
CHAPTER XIV.
THE ICE CHEST
CHAPTER XV.
THE STOCK POT.
CHAPTER XVI.
SOUP
CHAPTER XVII.
FIFTY RECIPES FOR SOUPS.
STOCK FROM BONES
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