Kōrero: Cooking

Cooking on an open fire, 1840s

Cooking on an open fire, 1840s

This rather bleak 1840s watercolour shows the challenges of cooking a meal outdoors over an open fire. The earliest European missionaries and settlers would have cooked this way. Here, two surveyors are attempting to cook food in a billy, with their job made difficult by driving rain and wind. The chap on the left is trying to create shelter with his hat, though the falling rain suggests the wind was coming from the opposite direction.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: B-155-010
Watercolour by Edward Immyns Abbot

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

David Burton, 'Cooking - Cooking technology', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/38511/cooking-on-an-open-fire-1840s (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā David Burton, i tāngia i te 5 Sep 2013