Cheese Turnovers

6 slices bread

milk

500g shortcrust pastry

1 onion chopped

salt and pepper

250g grated cheese

Method: Soak the bread in enough milk to cover for half an hour. Roll out the pastry and cut into 23cm squares. Place some drained bread on each square, sprinkle with chopped onion and season with salt and pepper then liberally sprinkle with grated cheese. Fold the pastry over, taking each corner and bring to the centre. Press the sides together. Cook in a hot oven for 40 minutes.

Source: Australia's Little Cornwall. Cornish Cook Book (Moonta, S.A.: National Trust of South Australia Moonta Branch, n.d. [post-1998]), p.5.

"Kiddley" Broth

Bread cut into squares, a few marigold heads, a few stalks of shallots chopped fine, lump of butter, salt and pepper. Put all in a basin, pour boiling water over and eat as soon as possible.

Source: Australia's Little Cornwall. Cornish Cook Book (Moonta, S.A.: National Trust of South Australia Moonta Branch, n.d. [post-1998]), p.6.

Ginger Biscuits

100g S.R. Flour

2 tablespoons golden syrup

2 level teaspoons ginger

Half teaspoon bi-carbonate soda

50g lard and butter mixed

1 level teaspoon cinnamon

1 level dessertspoon castor sugar

Method: Sieve dry ingredients. Melt fats and syrup, when cool, mix all together. Break off pieces about the size of a walnut and place - well spaced on a lightly greased baking tray.

Bake for 15 minutes 190C.

Source: Australia's Little Cornwall. Cornish Cook Book (Moonta, S.A.: National Trust of South Australia Moonta Branch, n.d. [post-1998]), p.9.

Star-Gazy Pie

Take as many fresh herrings or mackerel that will fit a moderate size dish. Scale and clean and remove bones. Lay flat and season with salt and pepper and parsley, then roll up neatly. Butter the pie dish and sprinkle with a thick layer of breadcrumbs, then layer fish, breadcrumbs to top of dish. Cover with slices of bacon. Beat six eggs, and add 2 tablespoons tarragon vinegar or a quarter pint of cream. Cover the dish with a shortcrust pastry, bringing the heads of the fish up through slits cut in the pastry. Bake in moderately hot oven 45-60 minutes. When cooked place a sprig of parsley in the mouth of each fish.

Serve with jacket potato.

Source: Australia's Little Cornwall. Cornish Cook Book (Moonta, S.A.: National Trust of South Australia Moonta Branch, n.d. [post-1998]), p.6.

Miner's Pasty

500g shortcrust pastry

250g thinly sliced onion

2 large cooking apples

250g thinly sliced steak

250g thinly sliced potatoes

sugar o[r] 3 tablespoons jam

Method: Roll pastry on floured board to form circle, arrange meat and vegetables at one end, and the apple and sugar at the other end, dividing same with small piece of pastry. Cook in a hot oven for approx. 45 minutes. Mark each end as to what is their content.

Source: Australia's Little Cornwall. Cornish Cook Book (Moonta, S.A.: National Trust of South Australia Moonta Branch, n.d. [post-1998]), p.3.

Breakfast relish balls

Mince any cold meat (mutton, beef or ham)

2 oz breadcrumbs

1/4 tsp lemon peel

salt and pepper to taste

1 egg

parsley and/or chives or dill.

pinch nutmeg or other spices of your choice

Method: Combine meat, lemon peel and spices and then shape into balls and dip into beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs and fry in hot fat/oil. Garnish with herbs and lemon slices.

Source: Elizabeth Woolcock's Cottage Recipes - compiled and edited by Ani Peters (?Adelaide, S.A, 2016), p.13

[Note: this souvenir recipe book, bought in October 2021 at the Moonta Mines Museum, has little relevance to the short, brutalized life of Elizabeth Woolcock (the only woman hanged in South Australia).]

London Candy

1 pint treacle or golden syrup

1/4 teaspoon of cinnamon

1 teaspoon ground ginger

Grated rind and juice of half a lemon

Method: Butter the sides and bottom of an enamelled saucepan, pour in the treacle, add the other ingredients, and boil gently, stirring all the time. In 10 minutes drop a little on a buttered plate. If it hardens pour the remainder out at once on to previously buttered plates. When it is slightly cool rub the hands with butter, cut thin strips of it, and draw it out, then twist lightly and continue to work in this way until it hardens and becomes a light golden colour.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.89.