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Parade. This simple, impressive dessert starts with a store-bought pie crust. Add a little sugar, cinnamon and butter and bake until lightly browned.
The Yarra Valley is an Australian wine region located east of Melbourne, Victoria. It is a cool climate region that is best known for producing Chardonnay, sparkling wine and Pinot Noir. Its proximity to the urban centre and high profile wineries have made it an important destination for enotourism, receiving over 3.1 million visitors in 2011. [1]
Tea and damper – Alfred Martin Ebsworth (1883) Following the pre-colonial period, European colonisers began arriving with the First Fleet at Sydney harbour in 1788. [15] The diet consisted of "bread, salted meat and tea with lashings of rum (initially from the West Indies but later made from the waste cane of the sugar industry in Queensland)."
The Upper Yarra Valley refers to the Yarra River catchment upstream of Woori Yallock and includes towns like Warburton, Yarra Junction, and Launching Place.Historically part of the former Shire of Upper Yarra, this sub-region is known for its forested mountains and national parks, as well as its cooler climate, which impacts local agriculture and viticulture.
The Yarra has been captured in many famous paintings including some by the Heidelberg School. The annual Moomba festival celebrates the Yarra River's increasing cultural significance to Melbourne. The river has featured in songs by the Whirling Furphies, titled "My Brown Yarra", and the Coodabeen Champions, titled "By the Banks of the Yarra".
The area that embraces Greater Melbourne is sometimes referred to as Central Victoria and may include the Yarra Valley, the Upper Yarra, The Bays that include Port Phillip, the Mornington Peninsula, the Bellarine, and the Western Port, the Goldfields, the Spa Country, the Central Coast, and the Bass Coast.
Yarra Junction is said to be the functional hub of the Upper Yarra Valley. The Post Office opened on 20 November 1901, a week after the opening of the Yarra Junction railway station as part of the railway line to Warburton. [2] Between 1913 and 1945, Yarra Junction was the junction station for the 3-foot (914 mm) gauge Powelltown Tramway.
The Yarra Valley region, producer of high-quality wine and with rainforest scenery nearby. The Mornington Peninsula, with its wineries, beaches and the Arthus Seat lookout. The Surf Coast near Geelong, with its surf beaches and views of the Great Ocean Road (Voted the world's best road trip in 2003).