Kangaroo steamer

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Kangaroo steamer is a historical Australian dish made in the English tradition of jugging, slowly cooking salt pork or bacon with minced or chopped kangaroo meat over several hours in a tightly closed vessel. It is first mentioned in the 1820s in an account of Tasmania, with which the dish became closely associated, described in 1843 by Charles Rowcroft as "the national dish of the Van Diemen's Land bush". Among Australian writers of the 19th century, the dish was regarded as excellent, although by the end of the century it had become increasingly rare, and is obsolete as an everyday dish.

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