No Food Waste
January 16th 2009 03:14
Rebecca Rishworth in later life.
Rebecca Rishworth and her husband Francois moved to the Wollongbar area (Far North Coast of NSW) in 1873. The article explains that, thanks to Rebecca's diary, we know that as any good housewife of the time, she grew vegetables and kept poultry. Rebecca seemed to have kept a tally of the number of eggs she collected each day.
The feast they had for Christmas included chicken (or fowl) with pumpkin, followed by plum pudding. The article goes on to say that Rebecca doesn't say how she made the plum pudding but wild raspberries may have played the role of plums in the pudding.
Where food may have been hard to grow, raise or catch, they may have bartered with their neighbours for variety. What scraps there were would have gone back into the fertilising of the garden.
It seems in days gone by where supermarkets weren't in existence, the value of food and it's ability to not only feed the family, barter with neighbours and be used back in the garden, was highly prized.
Acknowledgement to the Local History section of the Lismore Northern Star.
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