Steak Casserole

Method: Roll steak or chops in seasoned flour and place in casserole dish. Mix a packet of French onion soup with 2-3 cups of water (which you add gradually, otherwise it is likely to go lumpy). Cook in a mod. oven for 2-2.1/2 hours. Mushroom or onion soups are nice with steak. Tomato or curry soup mixed with chops. Chicken pieces done the same way with asparagus is quite delicious.

Source: contributed by Gayle Burnett (A.C.H. Balaklava Auxiliary) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.28.

Anzac Biscuits

1 cup flour, 1 cup coconut, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flaked oats, 1/2 cup melted butter, 1 tbspn golden syrup, 1 tspn carb soda, 2 tbsp water.

Method: Melt butter, syrup and soda, add flour etc. and bake in a slow oven.

Source: contributed by Betty Wiech in Blyth Recipe Book: Favourite Tested Recipes of the Blyth Trinity Lutheran Ladies Guild (Blyth Womens Guild, 1972), p.45.

Spuds

12 oz. icing sugar

1 tin condensed milk

12 oz. coconut

Method: Mix all together and roll in small balls and roll in Cadbury drinking chocolate. Makes approx. 90.

Source: contributed by Mrs. E. Wood (A.C.H. Volunteer Service) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.54.

Veal with Banana

Method: Take as many thin pieces of veal per person, and wrap each piece around a firm banana. Secure with toothpicks and brown in butter. Place them in an oven dish and cover with a good brown gravy and bake till done.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Peter Lloyd (Canberra A.C.T.) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.26.

Vegetarian Cauliflower Snow

1 large cauliflower

1 large onion, sliced

2 oz. butter

2 tomatoes, skinned and sliced

1 oz. flour

1/2 pint milk

Salt and pepper

6 oz. cheddar cheese (grated)

4 eggs, separated

Method: Cut cauliflower in fleurettes, cook in boiling salted water, stems down, 5-10 mins. Saute onion in 1 oz. butter until soft; add tomatoes and cook 2-3 mins. Meanwhile, make sauce with remaining butter, flour and milk, season and add 4 oz. of cheese. Arrange cauliflower in a gratin dish, spoon over the onion and tomato mixture, coat with sauce. Beat the egg whites stiffly and arrange on top of cauliflower, making four pockets for egg yolks. Drop a yolk into each pocket. Sprinkle over the remaining cheese and grill until crisp and golden brown.

Source: contributed by Lorna Hosking (A.C.H. Gawler Auxiliary) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.32.

Cranberry Ambrosia

1 tin cranberry conserve (500g)

1 tin apple pulp (750g)

450ml cream

2 teaspoons vanilla sugar

3 cups black rye breadcrumbs

Method: Combine cranberries with apple pulp. Whip cream with vanilla sugar. Place a layer of fruit pulp in a glass dish, cover with breadcrumbs, spread with whipped cream, sprinkle more breadcrumbs over the top and repeat layers again till all ingredients have been used, finishing with cream. Chill for approximately 6 hours before serving.

Source: contributed by Mrs. J. H. Ball (Easter Appeal Women's Committee) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.43.