A domestic miscellany

Home oeconomics: the science of managing a household. This is my domestic journal, an intermittent record of recipes, home improvements, and textile crafts.
Food preservation
Tomato chutney like Nanna used to make

Tomato chutney like Nanna used to make

We’re definitely getting to that time of year when everything’s $2 a kilo and you need extra arms to carry it all home from the market. The tomatoes were looking pretty good the other week at Preston, and so I got enough to make chutney. I wanted to use an Australian Women’s Weekly recipe that’s...
Preserved lemons

Preserved lemons

How have I never blogged this before? I probably did it on some prior blog and didn’t bring it across. Oh well. Preserved lemons! They are amazing things and not well enough known outside Australia. I mean, they’re not all that well known inside Australia, but I can safely assume that anyone here who has...