Sweet & Sour Sauce to Serve with Prawn Coc[k]tails

1/2 cup unsweetened pineapple juice, 2 teas. cornflour, 3/4 cup water, 2 tabs. tomato sauce, 1 tabs soy sauce, 2 tabs. white vinegar, 1 chicken stock cube.

Method: Mix all to-gether and stir until boiling, Reduce heat and simmer uncovered for 3 mins. Cool.

Source: Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.47.

Australian Cakes

1 lb. of flour

5 eggs

1 lb. of sifted sugar

pineapple flavouring

Method: Break the eggs into a basin, beat in the sugar, and when well mixed let it stand for 1/2 an hour; sift the flour, and stir it in by degrees; add pineapple flavouring to taste, then pour into a Yorkshire pudding-tin that has been buttered and sprinkled with flour and sugar; bake in a moderate oven until quite firm. When cold cut into fingers, pile on a dish, and sprinkle with sugar. Time - 20 to 30 minutes to bake. Sufficient for 2 or 3 dozen fingers.

Source: Memory Lane Cookbook (Rotary Club of Naracoorte, 1986), p.8.

Paron med Myntasas (Pears in Mint Cream)

Large can pears

1/2-1 pint cream

3 tablespoons mint liqueur or a dew [sic] drops peppermint oil and 1 drop of green colouring

1 oz. semi sweet chocolate

6 oz. black grapes

Method: Drain pears and arrange on platter. Whip cream flavoured with liqueur and spoon onto pears (keeping shape of pears). Sliver the chocolate at room temperature with a potato peeler and sprinkle on pears. Garnish with grapes and set in fridge 2 hours or more. Serve with green lime jelly and ice cream.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Jean Last, Auxiliary Organiser in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.37.

Rabbit Surprise

1 medium rabbit

1 onion

2 or 3 med. carrots

Celery

1 red pepper

Tomotoes [sic] according to taste

3 or 4 rashers bacon according to taste

1 level dessertspoon rice

1/2 teaspoon Maggi seasoning or dash Worcestershire sauce

1 chicken cube

Method: Soak rabbit in salt water about 1 hour, dry thoroughly and joint. Roll in seasoned flour, then fry in butter until golden brown. Place in a casserole. Saute onion in pan (add more butter if needed) until golden, then add tomatoes and fry until soft, pour over rabbit. Make a gravy with the leavings in the frying pan, be sure to make enough to cook rabbit in, then pour over the rabbit in casserole. Add finely sliced cellery [sic] and diced red pepper, 1 dessertspoon rice, and finely sliced carrots. Cut each rasher into four pieces and add chicken cube and seasoning or sauce, and cook in moderate over [sic] until tender. I cook mine in a pressure cooker and it only takes 1/2 hour.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Trix Price (deceased), A.C.H Port Lincoln Auxiliary in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.18.

Country Corn Bread

Delicious with barbecue

1 x 310g tin of corn kernels

3 cups SR flour

1 tspn. curry powder

125g cheddar cheese (diced)

4 eggs

1/2 cup finely chopped onion

1 x 45g can flat anchovies, drained and finely chopped

1/2 cup milk

Method: Sift flour and curry powder into bowl. Add cheese, corn, lightly beaten eggs, onions and milk. Mix well. Spoon mixture evenly into 2 well greased 23 cm x 8 cm bar tins. Bake in mod. Oven 20-25 mins.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.45.

[Ed. the anchovies have gone missing...]

Breakfast Economy

1/2 lb. sausages

mashed, cooked potatoes

breadcrumbs

Method: Cut sausages in halves and cover each piece with mashed potatoes. Roll in breadcrumbs and fry in hot fat.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.91.

Stuffed Prunes

1lb. prunes

1 small grated onion

parsley

1/2 tspn. curry powder

1 pkt. cheddar cheese

chopped mint

chives

mayonnaise

Method: Mix all together and fill stoned prunes. Another variation is whipped cream and walnuts.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.10.