Unsalted and Salted butter now in store…

Baking is easy. In this handy book to keep in your kitchen! Macaroons, doughnuts, shortbread, cupcakes and big cakes, fruit cakes, scones and icing…all your favorites are here. And there’s an easy guide to using yeast to bake the best bread, croissants, bagels, brioche, pastries and pies. From basic breads and teacakes, to pastries, pies, cakes and cookies, this is the easy way to bake. Learn how to watch the dough rise and fill your house with the warm smell of bread. Serve fresh doughnuts with coffee and put a smile on your guest’s face. It includes easy steps in cooking with yeast, and learn different ways of shaping, plaiting and baking loaves. There is a great variety of wholesome and high tea recipes for children and for entertaining.

With the diverse range of local food products available to us, The Weekend Local invites you to keep the food-miles low while still sending your taste buds on a global culinary adventure. With Asian flavours of infused rice, hot, salty, sweet and sour sauces and delicious marinades as well as Middle Eastern spice mixes, preserved lemons and fig and pomegranate condiments, your journey starts here…

“The spirit of the Australian country show permeates the pages of this marvellously nostalgic collection of show recipes, judges’ hints and vintage images. Compiled by a seasoned journalist on the rural round, it’s a snapshot of an Australian institution and a tribute to our stalwart country cooks. Long may they reign… and their sponges rise. Why buy For lemonade scones, jam rolls and jubilee cakes the way Nanna made them. Perfect for the aspiring showcook and generations to come.” Gourmet Traveller Australian edition (September 2008)

Jam Lady Jam is hand made in Healesville, with fresh seasonal produce and Organic Sugar. With these unique recipes combining fresh fruit and spices, Jam Lady Jams are deliciously aromatic and retain the natural texture of the fruit. I encourage you to be adventurous with this produce. Not only are Jam Lady Jams exquisite breakfast condiments but they are also wonderful to cook with. Here are just a few ideas of what to do with your delicious pot of Jam Lady Jam….Enjoy!

Helen McDougall and Doug Maclean,
have created a great country cafe in the tranquil heart of the panoramic
Strathbogie Ranges.

Quirky, couthie, country and inviting,
the Ruffy Produce Store is a great little spot in a wide open space.

Warm and cosy in winter and cooled by its high plateau location and shady oak trees in summer.

The store is comfortable, rustic and at the heart of the country community.

Ruffy, Victoria, Australia.

I’d love to tell you some fantastic stories about the origins of The Regimental Condiment Company. How we’ve supplied legions of armies and regiments since the 1800s, helped them fight wars and nourished the troops over many years… but it wouldn’t be true.

The fact is that the company started with one interesting product idea, a love of military history and a collection of old family recipe books.

Our family has had a long history of making preserves, relishes and sauces at home from recipes handed down through the generations. Old aunts like Miss Ursula Mulcair, who was Captain Gorman’s cousin and Mrs Florence Mallis, who was a missionary’s wife in India, passed their passion, knowledge and recipe books onto younger family members to continue the traditions. Some more family research unearthed even more great recipes that over the years, have stood the test of time… and taste.

We launched The Regimental Condiment Company with twelve products – four sauces, four chutneys and relishes and four jams and jellies.

But we’re developing some new products (from more old recipes we’ve been able to find) that will be coming soon.

We hope you enjoy our products as much as we enjoy making them.

This salt  (guradj gadjin) is from the Pink Lake, near Dimboola, Victoria.  This salt  is produced by Mount Zero in conjunction with the Traditional Owners – the Barengi Gadjin Land Council.  Working together they have adopted a hand-harvested and natural air-drying technique which was used on the Pink Lake more than a hundred years ago.

The salt (guradj gadjin) is unprocessed, unrefined and unadulterated allowing you to enjoy its natural health benefits.  The salt retains the pink colouring from the beta carotene when moist, and fades when dry.

Can you believe how time flies.

The Weekend Local opened its doors nearly 2 years ago and is continuing to lead the way in turning us back to local produce.

Think Global, Shop Local