Pan to Fire

Karen Bates

Copies available at the Hill End Family History Centre,
Tambaroora Street Hill End, from October 4th 2025.

If you live in Sydney, you can collect a copy from
Lorraine Purcell 12 Grantham St, Carlton, NSW. Contact her on 0408 117 784
OR
Order from our Website Shop

If ordering more than 1 copy to 1 address, please contact Lorraine for correct p&p price. We can post up to 4 copies to the one address for the one postage price of $20.

We can confidently assess this 212 page book as another valuable reference source closely associated with the Hill End & Tambaroora Goldfields.

Our volunteer, Karen Bates, has spent more than 3 years in developing this thematic record based on the written proof of the resilience, resourcefulness and ingenuity of our ancestors. She, and graphic designer Nicole Cameron, have cooked, photographed and eaten most of the recipes submitted by the keen descendants, and have lived to tell the tale!

This publication brings together personal collections, presenting these family histories for future generations in an elegantly bound A4 hardback edition. Showcasing domestic life in the goldfields it highlights the significant role of food, detailing the types of produce that were cultivated, grown, foraged, and farmed locally.

Women’s work was key to making life enjoyable. Mutton, potatoes and bread weren’t the only foods on the table. These women demonstrated creativity in an isolated regional area. The demographic diversity encompasses a broad spectrum of cultural backgrounds and socioeconomic levels, which contributes to a varied array of ingredients, culinary methods, and gastronomic results.

The archival record created is geographically unique to one of the richest goldfields in NSW. This resource will be an easy read, stories are recorded, recipes are given with full instructions and illustrations that will appeal to the cultural researcher, the family historian and the cook.

The layout presents an easy-to- read style, the recipes are clearly defined, and the family stories are just enough to make the reader wonder how on earth they managed to do so much with so little, considering the isolation, lack of electricity or refrigeration and a Woolworths close by.

Whatever your association with Hill End, family history or culinary delights this beautifully presented full colour volume will cater to all tastes. A perfect gift for future generations.

This project has been financially assisted by Bathurst Regional Council Heritage Funding and Hill End & Tambaroora Gathering Group.

The following is a list of family names of contributors and their ancestral recipe givers.

Family Names of Contributors and ancestors mentioned in the text.

S
Sabolta
Sala
Scheible
Schindler
Schweikert
Seaman
Shead
Sheering
Slavin
Smith
St Clair Morris
Stein
Story

T
Taylor
Thompson
Thomsen
Thomson
Tidey
Tomkinson
Toohey
Trestrail
Trevena

U
Ummerson

W
Walker
Wallace
Walpole
Warburton
Ward
Warry
Waterbury
Weir
Whittaker
Williams
Wilson
Wing Young Chen
Wood
Woolard

Y
Yates

A
Ackermann
Adler
Anderson
Askew
Auld

B
Bailey
Bates
Beard
Beer
Bourke
Bowman
Bray
Brooks
Brown
Butz

C
Café
Cameron
Carey
Carty
Carver
Cassidy
Chip Bew
Chong
Clarkson
Collins
Conran
Cooke
Court
Cox
Craigie
Cross
Cunningham
Cusack

D
Dawes
Deadman
De la Torre
Deitrich 90
Down
Drakeford

E
Eadie
Eckmann
Edwards
Elliott
Ellis
Embelton
Ettinger
Evans
Everett

F
Findlay
Fischer
Fitzgerald
Fitzsimmons
Fletcher
Flynn
Foden
Frenzel

G
Gaha
Gainsford
Gardiner
Gaynon
Godfrey
Gondolf
Goodwin
Govan

H
Hall
Hamilton
Harding
Haynes
Heath
Hocking
Hodge
Holtermann
Howard

I
Ingram
Innes

J
Jarman
Jeffree
Johnson
Jones
Jonson

K
Klotz
Knight
Krohmann
Kway
Kwok

L
Lawler
Lawson
Le Messurier
Ley
Lincoln
Long
Longmore

M
Maclurcan
Macryannis
Madden
Mansfield
Maris
Marshall
Maybon
McCance
McConnell
Moses

N
Norton

O
Ornetto
Osborne

P
Parslow
Pearce
Phillips
Piper
Pomfret
Price
Purcell

R
Rafterry
Rankin
Ratcliffe
Rawlinson
Rayner
Regan
Reid
Richman
Ritson
Roberts
Rosser
Ryan

S
Sabolta
Sala
Scheible
Schindler
Schweikert
Seaman
Shead
Sheering
Slavin
Smith
St Clair Morris
Stein
Story

T
Taylor
Thompson
Thomsen
Thomson
Tidey
Tomkinson
Toohey
Trestrail
Trevena

U
Ummerson

W
Walker
Wallace
Walpole
Warburton
Ward
Warry
Waterbury
Weir
Whittaker
Williams
Wilson
Wing Young Chen
Wood
Woolard

Y
Yates