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Make pizza dough like the Italians

“This recipe makes a thin dough with crispy base; add any toppings you desire. For the recipe, all you need is flour, water, yeast and salt, which can be used in different quantities and forms, depending on how thin or thick you want your pizza to be. The stunning...

Olive Groves of Broke Fordwich

As the Wollombi Brook meanders through the Broke – Fordwich – Milbrodale – Bulga area it flows mainly through flat, well drained sandy country ideal for many sorts of agriculture. Vineyards and olive groves have been established up and down the Valley and continue to...

Broke? Funny name for a town

Land was originally set aside for a village by Henry Dangar in 1828, but NSW Surveyor General Sir Thomas Mitchell gets the credit for naming the village in 1831. Major Mitchell named the village after Sir Charles Broke Vere, an English member of parliament and friend...

The Legend of Cockfighter

In the early 1800s the new British penal colony of New South Wales was centred on the area of Sydney Cove but also included outlying settlements at Camden, Parramatta and Windsor. With the arrival of free settlers came the need to open more land, so Governor Macquarie...

Little Bit of Italy raises $3226

“It was smiles all round when Singleton Cancer Appeal Committee, president, Kay Sullivan accepted a donation from the Broke Fordwich Wine and Tourism Association for $3226 to fund her organisation’s vital work in providing facilities and services for cancer patients...

Margan feast connects diners with Hunter Valley farmers

“If you are ever out Broke-Fordwich way, keep an eye out for a woman getting her hands dirty in Margan’s one-acre kitchen garden with a huge smile on her face. Her name is Pat Hansson, she is a horticulturalist and she knows just about everything there is to know...