Chicken Mornay

Put 1 tbsp. of margarine in saucepan, melt slowly, add 1 slice bacon finely cut and cook in butter for 1 minute. Add 1&1/2 pts. milk, 1 cup chicken or vegetable stock, 1 onion grated, 1 medium carrot grated, 2 cups cooked potato or 2 medium sized potatoes grated. Cook these vegetables in milk and bacon and stock until vegs. are tender. Add 1 cup grated cheese, little tomato sauce and Worcestershire sauce, 1 cup rice can be added if desired. Chop finely well boiled or steamed chicken or fowl and add above mixture and thicken with plain flour - about 1/2 cup and salt to taste. If fowl is large, a little can be used to make chicken jelly for sandwiches.

Source: contributed by Mrs K. Kelly in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.5.

Rice Bubble Sundae

1&1/2 cups rice bubbles, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter (melted), 1 cup flaked coconut, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, ice cream topping, 2 trays vanilla ice cream.

Method: Lightly mix rice bubbles, sugar, butter, coconut and walnuts. Put half mixture into greased 8 x 8 inch tin. Spread evenly with slightly softened ice cream. Sprinkle with remaining rice bubble mixture. Press down lightly. Cover and freeze until firm. Cut into squares and serve with topping syrup.

Source: contributed by Mrs M. P. Wakefield in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.45.

Jellied Salmon

1 pkt. lemon jelly crystals, 1 tbsp. gelatine, 3 tbsp. water, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1 lb tin salmon, 1/4 cup green capsicum strips, celery curls, 1&1/2 cups boiling water, 3 dsps. lemon juice, 3 dsps. vinegar, 1 cup cooked peas, 3/4 cup diced celery, 1/4 cup thinly sliced unpeeled cucumber.

Method: Make up jelly in usual way, form into large mould, rinsed with cold water, put in refrigerator to set. Soften gelatine in cold water, dissolve in boiling water, add vinegar and lemon juice, salt. Chill until partially set, add salmon, drained and broken, add veg., mix carefully, pour over set jelly and chill. Serve with tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, lettuce, cucumber and mayonnaise.

Source: contributed by Mrs. E. Davies in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.11.

Pineapple Rock Cakes

4 oz. flour, 2 oz. ground rice, 2&1/2 oz. butter or margarine, 2&1/2 oz. castor sugar, 1 level tsp. baking powder, 1 oz. roughly chopped glace pineapple, pinch salt, 1 egg, a little milk if necessary, sprinkling castor sugar.

Method: Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Rub butter into dry ingredients. Mix in sugar, rice and pineapple. Beat egg slightly then add to mixture, adding a little milk if it does not hold together. Put mixture in spoonfuls on greased slide, sprinkling a little castor sugar on each. Bake in hot oven. Makes about 12 cakes.

Source: contributed by Mrs C. Ebsary in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.53.

Austerity Date Cake

1 tbspn. butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 dsp. golden syrup, 1 cup water or milk, 1 egg, 1&1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1 cup dates.

Method: Put butter, dates, water or milk, golden syrup, in saucepan and warm, add soda, egg, sugar, flour. Bake 3/4 hour in moderate oven.

Source: contributed by Mrs. M. Smart in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.55.

Oven Cooked Hamburgers

1&1/2 lb minced steak, 1 cup soft bread crumbs, 1 tbsp. chopped parsley, 1 skinned tomato chopped, 1 dsp. tomato sauce, 1 tbsp. fruit chutney, 1 onion, 1 egg, salt and pepper, 1 dsp. gravy powder, 1 cup water or stock, 2 large bananas.

Method: Combine steak, bread crumbs, parsley, tomato sauce with chutney, finely chopped onion and beaten egg, season with salt and pepper. Mould a spoonful at a time into hamburger shapes, place in a greased casserole, blend gravy powder with stock or water, pour over the burgers, cover and bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour. Arrange bananas, slices cut lengthwise, on 'burgers, cover with bacon, bake 15 mins. These are very good.

Source: contributed by Mrs. G. Kelly in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.13.

Savoury T. V. Snack

Thin slices of bread for sandwich. Spread bread with very little butter and place on slices of cheese to make sandwich, salt and pepper. Beat two or more eggs with two tbsp. milk. Cut sandwich in half, cover with egg and fry. Cover fry-pan with little butter or margarine. Cook few minutes, garnish with bacon.

Source: contributed by Cherie Greenslade in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.7.