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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
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 Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 9:50:09 PM
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Hi from Australia!
I was brought up on a large farm with cattle and sheep and crops. I live in a farm area now, but until then lived in a medium sized town. We have been here 18 months or so. We have 5 children, the eldest 17.
We did grow pumpkins last year, still have one to eat up. Have been trying American recipes with great enthusiasm.
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:08:08 PM
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Hi Floral Saucer, welcome to the MJF forum. However did you find us?
Nice to have you with us, we would love to hear all about your life in Australia. Hope you have a chance to read through some of the old topics and ressurect them if you have an interest.Keep posting, the more the merrier!
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:15:42 PM
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hey..if there is anything you want to try and need a recipe..just ask..we are all pretty good at coming up with recipes!!! Would love to see some Australian traditional foods recipes too!! My pumpkins are looking to be good this year too..I hope so..we love pumpkin pie!!
Jenny in Utah
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:28:24 PM
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| Pumpkin Pie is next on my list, as well as Pumpkin Cookies. I have a recipe just need to do it! |
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therusticcottage
True Blue Farmgirl
4439 Posts
Kay
Vancouver
WA
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:32:54 PM
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Welcome!!! We have another member in your part of the world -- Helen from New Zealand. Would love to share recipes with you.
Kay - Living in Beautiful Washington State
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face."
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
156 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:33:09 PM
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| I love ressurecting posts, as long as you don't mind too much! I am sure there is something I want to cook as well. |
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 10:43:08 PM
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| I found the forum while looking for names for farms for someone else. An Australian recipe for pumpkin would be pumpkin scones, I made some earlier on this year and they were very nice. |
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shepherdess
True Blue Farmgirl
359 Posts
Robin
Eatonville
Washington
USA
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 11:23:22 PM
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Welcome FloralSaucer
I think it would be fun exchanging recipes with you. I guess I have never really thought about people having differnt recipes in Australia. You have joined a fun and interesting bunch of Farm Girls
Farm Girl from Western Washington
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
156 Posts |
Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 11:34:45 PM
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| We have lamingtons and pavlova, damper, Aussie styled hamburgers, anzac biscuits, it is easy to mix up the styles but I think that is right! |
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
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Posted - Jul 28 2005 : 11:35:51 PM
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| Oh, and slices. |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 07:46:32 AM
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Welcome Floral Saucer!!! Glad you are here and chatting with us!! We all would love to share recipes and learn about your traditions and life on your farm! By the way, What are slices? Is it a dessert? Jenny from Kansas
The flowers flee from Autumn, but not you-
You are the fearless rose that grows amidst the freezing wind. Rumi |
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Clare
True Blue Farmgirl
2173 Posts
NC WA State
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 07:52:09 AM
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Welcome again, Floral Saucer! Just curious what area/province/state of Australia that you reside in? I think you'll fit right in here and give us all an extra international dimension, along with Helen in New Zealand, our new friend Far Flung in Singapore and our many Canadian chums! Glad you found us!
**** Love is the great work - though every heart is first an apprentice. - Hafiz
Set a high value on spontaneous kindness. - Samuel Johnson****
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 07:59:27 AM
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Hi Floral Saucer, welcome to the group!! I just love pumpkin, btw, pumpkin bars are some of my favorites!
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the Aching or cool one pain, or help one fainting robin unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain" ~Emily Dickinson
**When life throws scraps your way ~ Make a Quilt!**
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 08:00:50 AM
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| welcome flora, wish i could grow pumpkins the bugs get them before i do .anyone have any helpful hints?? i would love to have a pumpkin patch. randi |
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ladybugsmom6
True Blue Farmgirl
128 Posts
Tami
Horicon
WI
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 11:53:41 AM
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Molly, You need to came see me for pumpkin! My freezer is still full from last year!
-Tami
livin' right and loven' life! |
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verbina
True Blue Farmgirl
231 Posts
randi
n.j
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 6:09:43 PM
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| PLEASE sombody tell me how to grow pumpkins the right way.PLEASE randi |
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
156 Posts |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 6:40:32 PM
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I am very lucky, ours came up in the compost. They turned out to be Jarradale's, but I asked someone what they were. We just watered them! Jarradale's have a grey skin.
I tried pumpkin bars this year and it was a great hit with our family, particularly with cream cheese frosting. It turned out that my Nana who collected great recipes that were easy and delicious, and used things she had on hand, already had and used a recipe like that. She has been gone over 20 years, I am lucky to have her recipes. So it was nice to eat Nana's pumpkin bars again, I remember the taste. I hadn't heard of bars, I didn't take that much notice when I originally typed the recipe. Years ago a magazine must have published American recipes for my Nana to get that one.
Nana and I must have similar ideas!
Slices are an Australian invention. They are like bars, they are made in a jelly roll pan, which we call lamington tin. The most famous would be lemon slice. My Nana made slices alot. You could cut them up and pack them into a plastic icecream container and take them with you somewhere for afternoon tea. She often went on train trips. |
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
156 Posts |
Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 6:45:39 PM
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| Oh, and I am from Victoria. Victoria and New South Wales are the most populated states. They have the biggest cities. I am between the two cities, originally I lived closer to Melbourne, the city in Victoria. Most people in Australia live near the sea, but I live inland. I live on the Great Dividing Range it is parallel to the Eastern coast of Australia. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 7:10:05 PM
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Boy the pumpkin bars sound so good!! I love pumpkin cookies alot too..my sis in law in Calif makes the best!
Randi...I think it is sort of just dumb luck with growing pumpkins....at least for me..some years mine do great..some years not. Last year I only planted the little cute tiny ones and got only about 10 of them from 4 plants..this year I planted the jackolantern type seeds and they are going great...
Jenny in Utah
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 7:47:32 PM
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| I don't mind sharing some of Nana's recipes if you like. |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Jul 29 2005 : 8:07:56 PM
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please do!!!! thanks!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things! |
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
156 Posts |
Posted - Aug 09 2005 : 9:43:10 PM
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Nana's Pumpkin Bars
Cream 4oz butter and 1 cup sugar add 1 beaten egg then 1/2 cup cold mashed pumpkin. Sift in 1 1/2 cups plain flour, 1 teaspn. cinnamon, 1/2 teas. ginger, 1/2 teas allspice, 1/2 teas. car. soda and pinch salt, then 1/2 cup chopped dates and 1/2 cup chopped walnuts. Mix well. Spread in flat tin. Bake in moderate 350oF oven for 30 minutes. I felt the tin could have been a bit smaller. |
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FloralSaucer
True Blue Farmgirl
156 Posts
Australia
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Stellaraye
Farmgirl in Training
25 Posts
Stella
Grande-Digue
NB
Canada
25 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2005 : 08:11:47 AM
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Hi FloralSaucer and all!
How wonderful that you live in Victoria, for that is where I'll be moving to live with my husband ~ as soon as Immigration approves my application to migrate there as a spouse. He was born in Sale, but he lived in many places, two of them Maryborough and Brisbane, Qld. After we met on the internet through my writings, he came here to be with me. Then I went over with him and we got married in 2001. We caravan-travelled up and down the East Coast, especially liked the Northern Rivers area of NSW, lived in many places, the last one being near Mount Warning, on Nobby's Creek Road. Before I came back here in Canada to get my papers in order, he brought me to visit where he grew up (Sale, Yannaki, Wilson's Prom) and now he lives and works near Melbourne, waiting for me.
"Some of us take half our lives to awaken." Colleen McCullough |
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Stellaraye
Farmgirl in Training
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Stella
Grande-Digue
NB
Canada
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Posted - Aug 18 2005 : 08:18:37 AM
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Sorry ~ didn't get to finish my post!
Just wanted to add that it's SO wonderful to see all the familiar names for Aussie desserts and places. Yesterday I finished reading "Tim" by Colleen McCullough... My soul home is Australia and I can't wait to go back! And when I do, Floral Saucer, do you want to start a FarmGirl chapter with me in Victoria?
Colin and I want to build our own Earth-Home, and grow food/crops/herbs.
How is the climate/rainfall where you live? Do you mind telling us the name of your nearest town, so I can locate you on the map?
I have so many questions!
Lovely to meet you
Stellaraye
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showmemom
True Blue Farmgirl
166 Posts
karen
carthage
mo
USA
166 Posts |
Posted - Aug 18 2005 : 2:54:36 PM
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hello FloralSaucer from the middle of the USA-
i live in the very sw corner of missouri which is smack in the middle of the US-can you tell us a little more about where you live? what's the weather like-do you have the same kind of growing season-do you have animals?
the only thing i really know about australia is the Hillsong Christian music DVD's i love. tell us more, more, more!!
talk to you soon.
karen
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