![Simpson's Kitchen Magic](/sites/default/files/styles/landing_page_banner/public/a2967003u.jpg?itok=68WIXdZo)
Cooking the books
Make a dish from one of the collection’s cookbooks and find out how delicious old recipes are.
![Oysters with Panko Breadcrumbs, butter, a little cream and nutmeg; Oysters with sesame-seed oil, soy, native finger limes; Oyster Patties; Plain Oysters; Unshucked oysters. Photo by Joy Lai](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_560/public/ob_20211008_089_final_0.jpg?itok=i80ZaLxC)
Oysters four ways
A recipe from The English and Australian Cookery Book: Cookery for the many, as well as for the upper ten thousand, 1864, by Edward Abbott.
![Sunderland gingerbread nuts](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_560/public/210129_0015_0.jpg?itok=qJ0veNnd)
Sunderland gingerbread nuts
A recipe from The Book of Household Management, 1861, by Isabella Beeton.
![Fish pie](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_560/public/210416_020_jl_final.jpg?itok=6wFjuVqm)
Fish pie
A recipe from The Kookaburra Cookery Book, 1911, by the Committee of The Lady Victoria Buxton Girls' Club.
![Bowls with melon ball cocktail](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_560/public/ob_20220704_016.jpg?itok=5kGKRIEf)
Melon ball cocktail
A recipe, reproduced in the Australian Women's Weekly Cookery for Parties, 1940s.
![Photo of table set with meringues and tea cups](/sites/default/files/styles/max_width_560/public/ob_20220704_037.jpg?itok=aSQKnXcu)
Strawberry meringue
A recipe submitted Mrs V Walliker of Port Fairy, Victoria to the Australian Women's Weekly in the 1950s.
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Choose your own recipe from a cookbook in the collection!