Auntie Kitty And The Cookery Corner...(1933-1938).
"...MARGARET AUSTIN (Greenmount) says: "I save all the cookery corner recipes, and there is a toffee recipe there which we nearly always make. Enid Wilks, of Pootenup, sent in the recipe..." (The Sunday Times, 6 October 1935).
"...The cookery corner is very nice and I have made quiet a few of the recipes," says - BARBARA CLAYTON (Kalgoorlie)... (The Sunday Times, 5 November 1935).
"...Our Members say: "I have made a recipe book, and this is how I made it. I cut out each recipe which is in the cookery corner, and stick it into the book, so that I will not lose it. AUDREY BREDE. P.O. Wheelarra..." (The Sunday Times, 19 May 1935).
This post is a continuation from the previous post "Aunt Kitty And The Children Of Subiaco 1930" and "Auntie Kitty And The Snapshot Contest...(1930)" about the Cookery Corner in The Sunday Times children's pages.
From the previous post "...During the early years the children of Western Australia and Subiaco wrote letters to children's pages in the local newspapers, not only to the Daily News newspaper but other newspapers such as The Sunday Times and the WA Catholic Record.
The children asked to become members of clubs the newspapers formed, entered competitions to win prizes, wrote letters, shared their creative work and aspects of themselves and their lives as children growing up in suburbs such as Subiaco and country Western Australia.
The local Western Australian newspaper, The Sunday Times children's page was edited by Auntie Kitty. The page contained letters from children who shared aspects of their lives. While the letters were acknowledged, not all of them were published and there do not seem to be many responses from Auntie Kitty until the later years. The page also included competitions, children's creative work, and a range of activities and stories and poems the editor thought children may like to do in their free time. The children's birthdays were acknowledged and published on the page by Auntie Kitty..."
The Cookery Corner in The Sunday Times children's page contains recipes which the editor thought the children may like to cook with some supervision from mother and the children shared.
The majority of recipes seem to be traditional sweets for example, fudge, toffee, caramel, coconut ice, marzipan, peanut brittle, lemon curd, nougat, Turkish delight and toffee apples that involved boiling lots of sugar and adding some every day ingredients like salt, butter, bi carbonate of soda and vinegar and extra ingredients like nuts, coconut, cocoa, dried fruit and fresh fruit. There were not any recipes that would be considered 'healthy' by today's standard. From the comments children enjoyed them.
Later on traditional sweet recipes from other countries were added such as traditional American fudge, Welsh taffy, Swiss Cream Caramel, New York Rock and American brownies and some biscuits.
The articles are from Trove, the database of the National Library of Australia. No copyright infringement intended.
The Sunday Times, 2 December 1934.
The Sunday Times, 12 November 1933
Sunday Times, 25 February, 1935.
