The Goulburn cookery book (digital copy)

The Goulburn Cookery Book was compiled by Mrs Forster Rutledge of Gidleigh, Bungendore.

She gave the copyright to the Church Society of the [Anglican] Diocese on 2nd October 1899, and for thirty years it brought in a steady income to Church funds, selling 205,000 copies in thirty editions. By the thirty-sixth edition in 1936, the book had been reprinted almost every year with either 5000 or 10,000 copies.

There were three more editions, the last in 1945, in a revised and altered form, called The New Goulburn Cookery Book, which was not so successful as it lacked the distinction of the original book.

Mrs Rutledge was the daughter of Major Richard Morphy, an Irishman who settled in Australia after serving in the 23rd Madras Regiment in India. Her mother was Miss Jane Styles, of Reevesdale, Bungonia.