Mrs. THIRKELL : Australian
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THERE is very little difference between English and Australian cooking; but there are some dishes which the Australians look upon as particularly their own, especially those made with one or other of the fruits for which the country is renowned. Apart from its fruits, Australia is a great meat-eating country : but .the only particularly Australian meat is kangaroo—which is not very easy to get from English butchers. In this talk Mrs. Thirkell describes an Australian Christmas with the' thermometer at 105° : and yet they keep an English Christmas with turkey and plum-pudding ! The plum-pudding isn't quite the same, however. Mrs. Thirkell gives n recipe for it. Other dishes which she deseribes this morning are a salad dressing from Victoria and a cold pudding with passion-fruit. a purple-coloured egg-shaped fruit which comes over in bottles from Australia.