Cooking Tips from the Experts

365 Country Women's Association Favourites

by Country Women's Association of NSW

Here are 365 recipes, one recipe for each day of the year, originally published in calendar format in the 1930s by the Country Women's Association of New South Wales, now updated and republished for today's home cook.

This is Australian country cooking at its best, making the most of seasonal produce and inexpensive, tasty ingredients. Here you will find Salmon puffs, Fricassee of rabbit, Peach and raisin pie, Rice flummery, Country Women's raffle cake-recipes that evoke the indomitable spirit of the country women of New South Wales.

CWA Women

Great Australian CWA Stories

by Bill Marsh

Put your hand up if you think the CWA is a tea-and-scones group of women who sit around tables and chat away. Wrong! Well, they do make the best jams and scones in the whole world, but as these stories reveal, these big-hearted, fun-loving, practical women are the backbone of communities throughout Australia.

Think drought relief, rural health programs, care for migrant women, outback education, women standing up and taking on politicians, women with international reputations. Guess who led the protests when the first big shopping centres in Australia were built with no public toilets?

CWA women dig bogged vehicles out of sand dunes, look after the lost and lonely, speak at national events, and can still, at the end of the day, serve up a plate of scones just out of the oven and a strong cup of tea. We couldn't get by without CWA, and this book tells some of their stories and shares a few of their best recipes and household tips!