Luscious Bacon and Peanut Rolls

8 slices thin fresh brown bread

Bacon slices

Crunchy Peanut Butter

Method: Cut crusts from bread. Spread thickly with peanut butter, cut in halves and roll up. Remove rind from bacon and cut in 4" lengths. Wrap each strip of bacon around each bread roll and secure with toothpick. Cover with gladwrap and refrigerate until ready for use. May be prepared previous day. When ready to use, bake 15 minutes in moderate oven. Garnish with parsley.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.82.

Salami Canapes

8 ozs. sliced Salami Sausage

1-2 eggs (scrambled in a little butter with seasoning and a teaspoon of tomato ketchup to taste)

1 small can Baked Beans

1 small can Potato Salad

Chopped stuffed Olives and pickled onions for garnish

Method: Arrange slices of salami (with skin in place) on rack and place under a hot grill for a few seconds only, when they will curl up round the edges forming small cups. Fill salami cups with filling to taste, e.g. baked beans in tomato sauce, scrambled eggs, potato salad. Garnish with slices of stuffed olives and onions.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.78.

Magic Cookie Bars

6 ozs. melted Butter

1 pk. Marie Biscuits

1 cup chopped Walnuts

3&1/2 ozs. Coconut

1 tin Condensed Milk

100 gr. Choc Bits

Method: Mix melted butter and biscuit crumbs together. Put in tin approximately 13" x 9" x 2". Sprinkle with walnuts, then Choc Bits and coconut. Pour over Condensed Milk and bake in moderate oven for 25 minutes. Cool in tin for 15 minutes before cutting into bars. Then store in fridge a while before taking out of pan. This keeps well in plastic container.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.43.

Tuna Slice

1 425 g can Tuna

1 cup grated cheese

1 onion

lemon (squeeze)

1 cup savoury biscuits, crushed

2 eggs

chopped parsley

Method: Mix all ingredients together. Spread on slide and bake in moderate oven for 30-45 minutes. Serve with lemon wedges.

Source: contributed by P. J. Young in Royal Adelaide Hospital Cookery Book: Our Favourite Recipes (Adelaide: 1981, 1st edition), p.6.

Meat in Cabbage Rolls

1 lb. [500 gm.] minced meat

1 chopped onion

2 tablespoons grated cheese

1 small head cabbage

Method: Parboil the leaves from the cabbage in salted water. Drain. Combine and season the other ingredients and place a spoonful on each leaf. Roll up and secure with toothpricks [sic]. Brown in a little hot fat. Add one cup of water or stock, cover and simmer for one hour.

Source: Better Health High Fibre Cookbook compiled by the Strathalbyn Kindergarten Committee (Hahndorf, S.A.: Fox Publishing, 1978), p.30.

Batter Rissoles

Batter using 2 eggs. 1 small finely chopped onion, 1 cup finely chopped cold meat.

Mix meat and onion, dip in batter, fry in a small amount of fat in a hot pan. It takes only a few minutes to brown and cook. Makes a little meat go a long way.

Source: contributed by Elaine Jericho in Blyth Recipe Book: Favourite Tested Recipes of the Blyth Trinity Lutheran Ladies Guild (Blyth Womens Guild, 1972), p.10

Party Mice

[Childrens Munchies for Parties]

1 pkt. jelly crystals

1 tin of pear halves

some snake lollies

currants and sultanas

Method: Make jelly and pour into a wide shallow container. Leave to set. Place pears on jelly, 1 pear per child. Cut "heads" of snake lollies. Use the body for tails and the heads for ears, currants for eyes and sultanas for nose. Head to be positioned at narrow end of pear.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.131.