Bobotie: A South African Dish

2 medium sliced onions

2 tblspns butter

2 lbs mince meat

1&1/4 cups milk

1 teaspoon salt

1 tblspn curry powder

1 thick slice bread

2 eggs

Method: Fry the sliced onions in the butter until lightly browned. Sprinkle the curry powder over the onions, add salt, and meat and mix well together. Soak the bread in the milk, then drain off the milk, mash the bread with a fork and add it to the meat mixture, together with 1 beaten egg. Turn into a buttered pie-dish. Add sufficient milk to the milk drained from the bread to make up to 3/4 cup. Beat the remaining egg and mix it with the milk. Season with salt & pepper & pour this over the meat mixture in the pie-dish. Dot with small bits of butter over the top & stand the pie-dish in another pan of water. Bake gently for 30 - 40 minutes at 350F.

Source: Cook Book: St Joseph's School, Clare (Clare: St Joseph's School, 1991), p.22.

Quick Quiche

3-4 eggs

2 rashers bacon, chopped

1 cup grated cheese

1 cup milk

1 onion, chopped

salt & pepper

3/4 cup pastry mix

Method: Beat eggs, add milk and pastry mix. Mix for a couple of minutes. Pour into greased pie dish.

Sprinkle onion, bacon and cheese into dish and bake in moderate oven for 50 minutes.

Serves - 4-5 people

Source: Recommended by J. Drew in The Wentworth Private Residential Care Cookbook (Aberfoyle Park [Adelaide], ?2008), p.11.

Easy Tasty Tit Bits

1 loaf Promax thin sliced bread

1/2 cup butter or margarine

Method: Into butter toss 1 or 2 dstspns. French Onion Soup powder (to taste). Spread bread on both sides, cut off crusts and toast in oven (both sides) or in a vertical griller. When almost cold cut the toasted bread into shapes. Keeps for quite some time.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.8.

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Porcupine Meat Balls

1 pkt. Beef Rice-a-Riso, 1 lb. Hamburger mince, 1/2 lb. sausage meat if liked, 1 grated onion, 2 tabs oil, 3/4 pint water, 1 tabs. Holbrooks Worcestershire sauce, 1x10 oz. can tomato soup

Method: Thoroughly combine uncooked rice-a-riso, and the sachet contents with meats and onion, shape into balls with wetted hands. Brown in heated pain (with oil), shaking continuously.

Combine soup, water and sauce and pour over meat balls. Simmer with lid on for 25-30 minutes, or until meat balls are tender. Serve with vegetables. This is quite nice just using plain rice and you can always add extra flavouring to replace the sachet contents from Packet mix.

Source: Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.43.

Avocado Carbonara

1&1/2 cups small spiral pasta, 2 rashes [sic] bacon, 2 tabs. butter, 1 Avocada [sic] (diced), 60gm cheddar cheese grated, 4 tabs. crea[m], 1 egg, pepper to taste

Method: Cook pasta in slightly salted boiling water. Saute bacon in butter, add the avocado, the drained cooked pasta, cheddar cheese, cream[,] egg and pepper - mix thoroughly to-gether. Heat through and serve on a heated plate. Serves 4 as an entree. Freezes wel[l]. Egg is not necessary. Sliced mushrooms, cooked with bacon and added is tasty.

Source: Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.40.