Damper is a type of bread made from the delicious and nutritious combination of flour and

water ,make the fine dough. They would knead the dough until it was full of air, then roll it out into

flatbread and cook it in the embers of the fire. Click on the damper for a delicious recipe. Sometime

people eat fruit on the goldfields to survive. Tea and coffee were often imported in cloth bags. Although it was rather cheap to buy, tea was

something the miners looked forward to at the end of the day as it reminded them of home. To

make billy tea first u have to find some water and some tea leaves. You have to put the water and

the tea leaves in the billy can, then put it on the fire for about ten minutes. After that hold the

handle of the can and turn your hand in circles, this will allow the tea leaves and the water to mix

together to make the tea.

When the Chinese arrived at the goldfields, they stayed together in large teams with a head

man in charge. Groups were given duties such as mining, cooking, or growing vegetables for

the team. They worked hard and lived simply, mainly as they sent money home to feed their

families and repay their fare. Much of the alluvial gold was running out so the Chinese miners

re-worked claims that had been unmanaged by other miners. This meant they went to collect

the gold that had been missed. They preferred not to go deep underground for fear of

offending the mountain gods. They also saw other chances to make money, and worked at

other jobs around the diggings, such as washing clothes, selling vegetables they'd grown,

selling cooked food or herbal medicines and so on.

The diggers on the goldfields were really racist towards the Chinese because of how they

looked and how they mined. They wore pigtails, tunic style clothing, and walked barefoot.

They had different religion, and different tools and methods to find gold. They carried all

their equipment on long bamboo sticks.