Blow Away Sponge

Beat 4 eggs for 10 minutes, add 3/4 cup sugar, and beat 10 minutes. Then add cup cornflour, 2 teaspoons self-raising flour. Mix well and bake in a moderate oven for 15 minutes.

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.80.

Australian Curried Steak Casserole

2 oz. mushrooms

1 large onion

1 dessertspoon curry powder

1 oz. sultanas

1 dessertspoon coconut

1/4 pint stock water

1 large apple

2 oz. butter

1 16 oz. can stewed steak

1 oz. raisins

1 dessertspoon plain flour

Salt and pepper

Rice, carrots and hard boiled eggs to garnish

Method: Chop the mushrooms, onion and apple and fry in butter. Add the steak, sultanas, raisins, coconut and flour and blend well. Finally, add the stock and season to taste. Transfer to a covered casserole and cook in a moderate oven for approximately 20 minutes.

Serve garnished with fluffy rice, carrots and sliced hardboiled egg.

Source: The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.35.

Curried Mince and Pineapple

500 gm mince

1 pkt. vegetable soup

1 dess. curry powder

1 tabs. Steak Sauce

pinch mixed herbs

1&1/2 cups water

Cornflour to thicken (mix to a paste with little water)

[handwritten erratum: 1 x 440 gm tin crushed pineapple]

Method: Brown mince in a little margarine. Using a Large saucepan mix together soup, pineapple, and juice, curry powder, sauce, mixed herbs and water.

Bring to boil stirring continuously until it thickens.

Add mince and simmer, stirring often, approx. 30-40 minutes.

Thicken with cornflour if necessary. Serve with rice.

Source: contributed by Gwen Chambers in Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.41.

Two Pudding

2 ozs. butter

2 ozs. flour

2 ozs. sugar

2 eggs

2 cups milk

Method: Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs and flour, mix well and add milk. Stir well, and bake in a buttered dish till set. Serve hot with sauce.

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.70.

Apple Snow

1&1/2 lb. apples

3 ozs. castor sugar

1/4 pint water

Thin rind and juice of half a lemon

Whites of 3 eggs

Method: Wash apples, cut into pieces, and put into stewpan with water, sugar, lemon rind, and juice. Stew gently until tender, then rub through a hair sieve. Whip the whites of the eggs. When the apple pulp is quite cold add them to it and beat until mixture is a stiff froth. Heap on a glass dish.

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.66.