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Coal Range Day - Spectrum's Christmas Treat

  • Spectrum for 25 December 2011

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They can cook your dinner, heat your water, warm your socks and dry out your wet cat - is there anything a Shacklock Coal Range can’t do?

Coal Range Dec Chimney sweep Steve Williams and Erin from Cornwall Park checking if the range is heating up small

Chimney sweep Steve Williams and Erin from Cornwall Park checking if the range is heating up

For Spectrum's Christmas treat, Justin Gregory looks at the skills and techniques of coal range cooking when the oven at Cornwall Park’s historic Huia Lodge is fired up and absorbs lessons in cooking ginger gems, hot cheese scones, and colonial goose. Cooking the way your grandmother, her mother and her mother before her did it.

Coal Range Dec Nadia s scones will be done in minutes

Nadia's scones will be done in minutes