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anglo-australian classics: sausage rolls, with rough puff pastry
australiana, baking, recipesRough Puff, also known as (quick) all butter puff pastry
Real puff pastry is a laborious process that involves much folding and refrigerating to produce that - oh so wonderful - effect of buttery layers. A puff pastry is best used for open…

anglo-australian classics: shepherd’s pie
australiana, recipes
One of my earliest food memories is stopping at a little cafe restaurant in the blink-and-you-will-miss-it town called Yarck on the Melba Highway. It was probably a Friday night, and we would have been on our way to Jamieson for the weekend. …

anglo-australian classics: meat pies
australiana, baking, recipesWhen you go to a football game in the southern part of Australia, where we follow Australian Rules Football, a home grown style of footy first played in Melbourne in the 1800's, the standard stadium food is a meat pie, with sauce, otherwise…