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The Art of Living in Australia The Art of Living in Australia Philip E. Muskett The Art of Living in Australia Table of Contents The Art of Living in Australia.................................................................................................................................1 Philip E. Muskett............................................................................................................................................1 PART I. THE ART OF LIVING IN AUSTRALIA.......................................................................................1 CHAPTER I. THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA.........................................................................................1 CHAPTER II. THE ALPHABETICAL PENTAGON OF HEALTH FOR AUSTRALIA...........................8 CHAPTER III. ABLUTION −− THE SKIN AND THE BATH.................................................................10 CHAPTER IV. BEDROOM VENTILATION............................................................................................16 CHAPTER V. CLOTHING, AND WHAT TO WEAR..............................................................................19 CHAPTER VI. DIET...................................................................................................................................22 CHAPTER VII. EXERCISE........................................................................................................................33 CHAPTER VIII. ON SCHOOL COOKERY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE AUSTRALIAN DAILY LIFE...............................................................................................................................................35 CHAPTER IX. AUSTRALIAN FOOD HABITS AND THEIR FAULTS. −− A PLEA FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT.......................................................................................................................................44 CHAPTER X. AUSTRALIAN FISH AND OYSTERS −− AND THEIR FOOD VALUE........................49 CHAPTER XI. ON SALADS; SALAD PLANTS AND HERBS; AND SALAD MAKING....................63 CHAPTER XII. ON AUSTRALIAN WINE, AND ITS PLACE IN THE AUSTRALIAN DAILY DIETARY...................................................................................................................................................69 PART II. AUSTRALIAN COOKERY RECIPES AND ACCESSORY KITCHEN INFORMATION.....99 CHAPTER XIII. THE KITCHEN...............................................................................................................99 CHAPTER XIV. THE ICE CHEST..........................................................................................................100 CHAPTER XV. THE STOCK POT..........................................................................................................102 CHAPTER XVI. SOUP.............................................................................................................................103 CHAPTER XVII. FIFTY RECIPES FOR SOUPS....................................................................................103 CHAPTER XVIII. FIFTY RECIPES FOR FISH......................................................................................119 CHAPTER XIX. FIFTY RECIPES FOR MEAT DISHES.......................................................................134 CHAPTER XX. FIFTY RECIPES FOR VEGETABLES.........................................................................152 CHAPTER XXI. FIFTY RECIPES FOR SALADS AND SAUCES........................................................164 CHAPTER XXII. FIFTY RECIPES FOR SWEETS.................................................................................175 i The Art of Living in Australia Philip E. Muskett • PART I. • CHAPTER I. THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. • CHAPTER II. THE ALPHABETICAL PENTAGON OF HEALTH FOR AUSTRALIA. • CHAPTER III. ABLUTION −− THE SKIN AND THE BATH. • CHAPTER IV. BEDROOM VENTILATION • CHAPTER V. CLOTHING, AND WHAT TO WEAR. • CHAPTER VI. DIET • CHAPTER VII. EXERCISE • CHAPTER VIII. ON SCHOOL COOKERY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE AUSTRALIAN DAILY LIFE. • CHAPTER IX. AUSTRALIAN FOOD HABITS AND THEIR FAULTS. −− A PLEA FOR THEIR IMPROVEMENT. • CHAPTER X. AUSTRALIAN FISH AND OYSTERS −− AND THEIR FOOD VALUE. • CHAPTER XI. ON SALADS; SALAD PLANTS AND HERBS; AND SALAD MAKING. • CHAPTER XII. ON AUSTRALIAN WINE, AND ITS PLACE IN THE AUSTRALIAN DAILY DIETARY. • 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. • CHAPTER XVIII. FIFTY RECIPES FOR FISH. • CHAPTER XIX. FIFTY RECIPES FOR MEAT DISHES • CHAPTER XX. FIFTY RECIPES FOR VEGETABLES • CHAPTER XXI. FIFTY RECIPES FOR SALADS AND SAUCES • CHAPTER XXII. FIFTY RECIPES FOR SWEETS This page copyright © 2000 Blackmask Online. http://www.blackmask.com PART I. THE ART OF LIVING IN AUSTRALIA CHAPTER I. THE CLIMATE OF AUSTRALIA. AUSTRALIA, forming as it does a vast island continent in the Southern world, lies to some extent within the tropical range, for the Tropic of Capricorn traverses its northern part. At present, however, its most densely populated portion lies just outside the tropics, and it is this semi−tropical part of Australia with which we have mostly to do. And apart, too, from the mere fact of Australia being between certain parallels of latitude, which makes its climate tropical or semi−tropical, as the case may be, its position is peculiar in that it forms this enormous ocean−girt continent already described. One of the most extraordinary circumstances in connection with the Australian people is, that they have never yet realized their semi−tropical environment. It would naturally be supposed that a dominating influence of this kind would have, from the very first, exercised an irresistible effect on their mode of living. But, on the contrary, the type of the Australian dwelling−house, the clothing of the Australian people, and, what is more The Art of Living in Australia 1 The Art of Living in Australia significant than anything else, their food habits, prove incontestably that they have never recognised the semi−tropical character of their climate all over the rest of the world it will be found that the inhabitants of different regions adapt themselves to their surroundings. For instance, the Laplander and the Hindoo live in such a widely different manner, that one can scarcely believe they belong to the same human family. It has, however, been reserved for Australia, strange even from the first, to prove an exception to this universal law. Yes, strange even from the first! For did not the earliest arrivals find that the seasons came at the wrong time of the year; that Christmas−tide came with sunshine, and that the middle of the year was its coolest part? Were there not found in it curious animals, partly quadruped, partly bird, and partly reptile? Were there not discovered, also, other animals who carried their young in a pouch? Moreover, did Dot these first settlers see that the trees shed their bark, and not their leaves; and that the stones were on the outside, not the inside, of the cherries? But even admitting these peculiarities of season, of fauna and of flora it may be asked, How is it that the people of Australia have never adapted themselves to their climatic surroundings? The answer, or rather answers, to such an interrogation must largely consist of matters of opinion. This being the case, therefore, I call do no more than attempt to give my own explanation of this singular anomaly. It must be remembered that the one great impetus to colonisation in Australia was the discovery of gold in 1851. Up till that time settlement had been proceeding steadily, it is true. Indeed, one may go 80 far as to say that the development of the country was progressing, although slowly, on safe and natural lines. But the announcement of the finding of gold, which was continually being corroborated by successive reports, acted as an electric stimulus throughout the whole civilized world. As a consequence shipload after shipload of new comers flocked to Australia, all aflame with the same ardent desire −− gold. Amongst them were certainly many of the picked men of the earth, whose spirit will leaven the whole of Australasia for all time to come. Yet even at the present day we still see the influence of this gold period at work, in the readiness with which men are caught by any plausible mining prospectus. They have only to be told that a company is being formed to extract gold out of road metal, and they are ready to believe it, and, what is more, prepared to put money into it. But far better than all this eagerness to amass wealth by some fortunate coup, would be the natural development of the country. Agriculture and market−gardening, vine−growing and wine−making, the deep−sea fisheries and all the other comparatively neglected opportunities, only await their expansion into vast sources of wealth. What wonder, then, that a continent with so much that is wanting in connection with its food life should be living in a manner distinctly opposed to its climatological necessities! In the case of America there is a far different history. Settlement began there in a small way at first, to gradually expand as time went on. There was no sudden event, with the exception of the short−lived Californian gold rush of 1849−50, to set men flocking to its shores in countless legions. No, in America the inland territory has been peopled, steadily and slowly at first, but in after years by leaps and bounds, so that its development
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