Native Bushfood · Roasted Nut
Macadamia Nuts
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Macadamia trees are native to the rainforests of southeast Queensland and northern NSW, and much of the world's commercial macadamia crop is believed to trace back to trees first propagated from this native stock in the 19th century.
Whole macadamia kernels are roasted and salted, dipped in chocolate, or ground into praline and sold from Queensland market stalls, servos and Sunshine Coast tourist stops. Farm-gate stalls near the old growing districts sell them straight from local orchards, still warm from roasting.
Why it's made this way: Aboriginal groups such as the Logan River clan traded the native nut with settlers from the 1860s, before commercial orchards were planted along the Queensland and northern NSW coast from the 1880s onward, eventually turning a rainforest bushfood into a global commercial crop.
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