Each year chef Jan Slottje packs up her home in Brisbane to spend eight months running this remote outback kitchen, and her sweet delicacies have tourists drooling.
With a name like Hell's Gate, a remote outpost in Australia's far north is a surprising place to find baked sweets rivalling top-notch patisseries.
Each year, Jan packs up her home in Brisbane to spend eight months running the kitchen for the roadhouse and adjacent station property."How would I describe it? I couldn't. I've not had one," Jan says."I can lick the beaters and the bowl.""People say, 'Oh, we heard about this in Darwin', or 'Oh, we heard about this in Cairns,'" Jan says.
It refers to a small gap in the escarpment that was considered dangerous because people travelling by foot or on horseback had no help until they reached Katherine in the NT, nearly 1,000 kilometres away.The roadhouse is an important stop for travellers on the Savannah Way — a 3,700km route stretching from Cairns to Broome.
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