28 Forgotten Australian Cooking Tricks From The 1960s That Modern Science Now Validates

BANNED Cooking Tricks from 60s That Scientists Now Say Were GENIUS 28 Forgotten Australian Cooking Tricks from the 1960s That Modern Science Now Validates The dripping tin on every suburban stove. The Kakadu plum with 100 times the vitamin C of an orange. These are the techniques food companies, dietary advisers, and assimilation policies convinced an entire generation of Australians to forget. Research over the past two decades has been quietly confirming what those kitchens already knew. This video covers 28 examples from Country Women's Association recipes, Australian Women's Weekly classics, Aboriginal bush tucker knowledge passed down for 60,000 years, outback station cooking, and post-war migrant techniques. What's covered: Why the dripping tin beside your nan's stove was right all along The Coolgardie safe and how evaporative cooling compared to the electric fridge Kangaroo meat — the only food here that was literally banned for human consumption across most of Australia until 1993 Kakadu plum, the world's highest natural vitamin C source, confirmed by CSIRO and University of Sydney research Lemon myrtle, the rainforest leaf shown to kill MRSA in laboratory studies Sugarbag honey from native stingless bees, with antimicrobial activity comparable to manuka, confirmed by University of Sydney research in 2025 Witchetty grubs, mountain pepperberry, warrigal greens, wattleseed, quandong, and macadamia nuts CWA technique for lamingtons, ANZAC biscuits, and pavlova Billy tea with a gum leaf, rabbit casseroles, lamb's fry, and bush damper baked in the ashes Paperbark fish cooking, kup-murri earth ovens, and green ant vitamin C drinks Each entry is attributed to the Aboriginal nations, CWA branches, or station cook traditions it came from. Scientific citations pull from CSIRO, the University of Sydney, the University of Queensland, JAMA Internal Medicine, the Annals of Internal Medicine, Food and Chemical Toxicology, and Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Tell us in the comments which cooking trick your grandmother, mother, or father still practised when you were growing up. Which state? What was on the stove? Every comment is a record of an Australia that nearly slipped away. Subscribe for forgotten Australian history and retro cooking every week. Like if your grandmother kept a dripping tin on the back of the stove. Topics: 1960s Australia, vintage Australian recipes, Country Women's Association cookbook, Australian Women's Weekly, Margaret Fulton, bush tucker, Aboriginal cooking techniques, Kakadu plum, lemon myrtle, kangaroo meat history, witchetty grub, sugarbag honey, macadamia nut history, quandong, warrigal greens, wattleseed coffee, damper recipe, ANZAC biscuit history, pavlova chemistry, lamington technique, Coolgardie safe, mutton dripping, billy tea, rabbit cookery, myxomatosis, lamb's fry, bush food science, CSIRO native foods research, traditional Australian cooking, retro Australian food, post-war migration Australia, Italian Greek migrants Australian food. #1960sAustralia #BushTucker #ForgottenRecipes #AustralianHistory #NostalgiaCooking 00:00 - Open 01:59 - The Cloth-Boiled Pudding 03:02 - The Lamington Nobody Bakes Properly Anymore 03:58 - The Golden Syrup Binder in ANZAC Biscuits 05:07 - The Pavlova Chemistry That Is Slipping Away 06:08 - The Bottling Pantry 07:20 - Lamb’s Fry and Bacon, the Iron Tonic 08:29 - The Sunday Rabbit Casserole 09:29 - Damper Baked Direct in the Ashes 10:31 - Billy Tea With a Gum Leaf 11:28 - The Coolgardie Safe 12:29 - The Dripping Tin Beside the Stove 13:37 - The Drying Line Out the Back of the Station 14:34 - Old Man Saltbush 15:33 - Pigface, the Beachside Seasoning 16:36 - Green Ants, the Bush Lemonade 17:48 - Warrigal Greens, the Vegetable That Saved Captain Cook’s Crew 18:52 - The Quandong, the Desert Peach 19:56 - The Macadamia We Forgot Was Ours 21:01 - The Bunya Nut and the Cold Creek 22:13 - Wattleseed, the Bush Coffee 23:20 - Cooking Fish in Paperbark 24:31 - The Earth Oven, the Kup-Murri 25:41 - Mountain Pepperberry, the Spice That Preserves the Meat 26:53 - The Witchetty Grub, the Original Protein Bar 28:14 - Sugarbag Honey, the Medicine in the Hollow Tree 29:37 - Lemon Myrtle, the Rainforest Antibiotic 31:13 - The Kakadu Plum, the Highest Vitamin C in the World 32:41 - Kangaroo Meat, the Only Item on This List That Was Actually Banned Vintage Nostalgia - Good Old Days    • Vintage Nostalgia - Good Old Days