Category Archives: social

The Secrets of Suet, Shredded and otherwise

In the run up to Christmas we were inundated with orders for Suet as Australia’s cooks hunted find a stockist in order to make their traditional Christmas pudding… How strange that such a basic and traditional ingredient has become so hard to find and superseded by alternative fats that simply don’t do some recipes justice. [...]

Burns Night Supper, the how’s and why’s!

A Burns supper is a celebration of the life and poetry of the poet Robert Burns, author of many Scots poems including “Auld Lang Syne,” The suppers are normally held on or near the poet’s birthday, 25 January, although they may in principle be held at any time of the year. Burns suppers are most [...]

What do our customers think of our Pork Pie?

Below are some spontaneous emails we have received from our ever growing fan club! “Just wanted to let you know I tried your pies on the weekend, bought them from the Farmers Market in Echuca – they were magnificent!!! I’m not a big fan of pork products, but I have to say they really were [...]

Jim’s Recipe of the Month – July

Sausage Casserole – Serves 4 Preparation time: 30 minutes Cooking time: 1 hour Ready in: 1 hour and 30 minutes Ingredients: 8 medium size sausages (two per person). I medium sized onion 4 shallots roughly chopped 2 peppers, sliced 2 crushed garlic cloves 1 400g tin of chopped tomatoes 1/2 pint of chicken stock 1 [...]