TypeBeachDetailsOn the western shore of Berowra Creek, the first small sandy beach upstream from the entrance to Marramarra Creek. John Israel Rose and his wife Elizabeth settled here about 1860. Doughboys, sometimes called dumplings or floaters, were a boiled pudding made of dough and sometimes mixed with currants. These were popular throughout the 19th century and up to the 1950s. A family travelling along the Great North Road in 1917 enjoyed "...a solid mass of dough heavily studded with black currants and known as doughboy or spotted dog cooked in a billy can of boiling water for 20 minutes."
Source: Powell, John P. 1994, Placenames of the Greater Hawkesbury Region, Hawkesbury River Enterprises, Berowra, p.38.
