Gunditjmara smoked eel
Short-finned eels, kooyang, smoked for a sustained period in the hollows of large trees at Budj Bim in south-western Victoria, a combined heat, smoke and drying method of the Gunditjmara people.
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Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.
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Australian vegetable relishes (green tomato relish)
Australian green tomato pickles and relishes vary. This partial version follows ABC Western Victoria’s 2018 pickle recipe, not Beerenberg’s commercial formula. Sources document examples from 1944 onward, not a single origin.
Bêche-de-mer (trepang)
Sea cucumber cleaned, boiled and dried, sometimes with smoke, into a long-keeping trade product; Makassan processing in Arnhem Land is documented from at least the eighteenth century.
Lime pickle (Peter Kuruvita)
Peter Kuruvita’s published lime pickle stuffs 20 limes with rock salt, then simmers them in vinegar, sugar and chilli before a two-week rest.
Bunya nut storage (barnji, bon-yi)
Bunya nuts were cooked and kept in wet ground or water by peoples of south-eastern Queensland, and were also roasted, ground and pressed into cakes that could be cooked again and stored for later use.
Johnno’s Damper: Queensland stockcamp version
A quick stockcamp loaf of self-raising flour, powdered milk, sugar, salt and water, mixed to a soft dough and baked in an oven or camp oven.