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A 7lb Chelsea golden syrup tin with a lift off lid. " Chelsea / GOLDEN / SYRUP / Net 7 lb" is marked in white on a blue background on two sides of the tin along with two sugar canes. " MADE FROM CANE SUGAR BY / NEW ZEALAND SUGAR COMPANY LTD AUCKLAND. " is marked in blue on a white background near the base. " 50 -" is written in black felt pen on the underside of the base. The tin is empty.
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Puke Ariki’s collection is a fascinating mix of the unusual and the everyday. Along with some of the spectacular objects which tell stories about Taranaki, we also collect objects which hint at our daily lives, past and present. Many New Zealand homes would have a tin of Chelsea’s Golden Syrup, which is still made to the same recipe as when it was first produced in 1884. The Chelsea Sugar factory sits on an iconic site on Auckland’s Birkenhead Point, and has been operating from there for 130 years. Golden syrup is pale treacle, made during the process of refining sugar. It adds moisture, colour and a caramel flavour to baking, most famously for Anzac biscuits. This blue and white coloured tin held 7 pounds of syrup – equivalent to 3 kilograms – meaning it would have been produced prior to 1969, when the metric system was introduced to New Zealand.
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