What was life like for ordinary working-class children living in the suburbs or on the fringes of Australian cities in the early 1900s? How different or similar was their day to yours?
Step into the shoes of the Youngein children, Jim and Dolly, from Susannah Place, Sydney and find out how they lived.
What did you have for breakfast this morning? Do you know what you’ll have for dinner? Very likely what you’ll have for dinner tonight will be different from what you had for dinner last week. This is because nowadays most families shop at big supermarkets with a huge array of choices.
What would it have been like before supermarkets and efficient transport systems, which bring food from halfway across the world to our shops? What sort of food would you have had access to, and where would you have got it from?
Produced by Sydney Living Museums & ABC Education (c) 2018
Meals were very simple affairs for most people living in the 1900s. Breakfast for the Youngeins would consist of a piece of toast or porridge and a cup of tea. Occasionally, on weekends they would get a cooked breakfast, as a special treat. Sunday lunch or Sunday dinner, was the dinner of the week,
Because my mother was too busy in the shop, to really make a meal for the family. Unlike today, children in those days often went to school close to home, so they would go home for lunch. The Youngein children went to the nearby Fort Street School,
Which was a short walk from their house on Gloucester Street. There was no Sydney Harbour Bridge in their way, at that time. At dinner the family would have dishes like Steak and Kidney Pie or Rabbit Stew with bread and dripping.
Some of the recipes from this time had survived to this day. Thanks to Dolly’s cooking homework book.
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0:10 – “. . . and a cup of tea.”
Well of COURSE with a cup of tea!
I thought back then they walked miles and miles to school. Or so they say.
Short🤔
Spill the tea sis
The bread when I was a kid was delicious as well as nutritious, all the jam was home made, looking at this has brought back great memories, thanks.
Peaceful times
I love how toast w butter and jam, or porridge, plus a cup of tea, was the breakfast .. how much has it changed today in Aus? Hardly! … even and a cooked breakfast on occasional weekends, like the Saturday fry up, also the takeway dinner on the weekend that lasts a week.. interesting how it all feels familiar even though I've never seen this doco, nor had a history lesson of the early times
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Had some dripping last week for breakfast
The children were sent to the mines at age 9.
Bacon, A bowl of Grits, Eggs, Toast, Coffee and Fresh squeezed Orange Juice from Oranges just picked! Growing up in Okeechobee FLA in the 60s
So breakfast was like chow time in prison
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Jeez it was so fancy
Breakfast back then: A simple breakfast, pudding and bread and butter and a cup of tea
Breakfast now (I was joking): BaCOn, PAnCakES, WAffleS & eGG
One like for Dinner back then vs Dinner now
Ahh I remember those times..
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Me:KIDNEY PIE
Me again:Is it made out of kidney’s
Now that's the real American diet
That’s interestint
Still the best for me with a cup of tea🤍
im too nervous and depressed every morning to eat breakfast
Aight ima head out to mcdonalds
Thank your for your video ☺ I have a friend who loves to bakes and she asks if you could refer her to where she can find the recipes which for this delicious meal and others?
This threw me. My father (TX USA) ate this very same meal as a child coming up during the 1930s.
I wish I lived in the 19 century and early 20 century. What a time, life was so much simpler back then. Marriage mattered and family was the most important thing, not only sex and pleasures like nowadays.
Do one for those that grew up in the late 1900s.
it would have been a thick slice of uncut bread
I feel like growing up in the early 1900s was way more peaceful than in 2023. Anyone else think the same way?
that's it? I wonder what's the prison food in early 1900s