Whether or not it was the swimming pool cake stuffed with blue jelly or the prepare cake with the carriages stuffed with smarties, everybody has a favourite recipe from the Australian Ladies’s Weekly Kids’s Birthday Cake Ebook.
Lately the duck cake, which is made with two potato chips for a invoice, was surged again into recognition due to the beloved youngsters’s animated collection Bluey.
The Australian Ladies’s Weekly holds a particular place in folks’s hearts and this 12 months marks 90 years of the journal and its beloved recipe books.
The publication’s 9 a long time might be celebrated in an upcoming exhibition on the Bendigo Artwork Gallery. From Might 27, the Australian Ladies’s Weekly: 90 Years of an Australian Icon might be trying again at a few of the inspiring girls who’ve been a part of the journal’s historical past and the way the various altering eras of style and elegance got here to life on its pages.
From its inception, the Weekly has been written by girls, for girls. A number of the trailblazing journalists who made it occur embrace reporter Dorothy Drain, who filed tales from the sector throughout WWII, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars, writing for the moms and sisters of the troopers she met.
Drain labored for the Weekly for 38 years, together with the final 5 as its editor. Ita Buttrose labored as a duplicate lady there earlier than famously climbing the ranks to grow to be the youngest editor of the Weekly between 1975 and 1980.
Entrance web page attraction has at all times been a weekly specialty. Over time it has been graced by Hollywood royalty from Marilyn Monroe to Nicole Kidman, Australian politicians from Julia Gillard to Anna Bligh and naturally, the royals. The late Queen Elizabeth first appeared on the duvet in 1937 as a woman, then all through her life up till her passing in September final 12 months.
The Weekly commemorated her demise with a memento 164-page version devoted to the Queen.
The journal has at all times provided a window onto the worldwide style stage and this exhibition will show a choice of glamorous clothes worn on current covers. These embrace the hanging pink Toni Maticevski-designed gown worn by legendary culinary entrepreneur Maggie Beer, a Sonia Cappellazzo robe for actress and author Miranda Tapsell, and the Aurelio Costarella gown worn by Crown Princess Mary of Denmark.
The Australian Women’s Weekly: 90 Years of an Australian Icon exhibition might be on show on the Bendigo Artwork Gallery till August 27, 2023. Entry is free.
Why not make the time to additionally see a few of them Australia’s most iconic artists on show with the Australiana: Designing a Nation exhibition which is on on the gallery till June 25.
