Indonesian Beef

750g Topside or Round Steak, cut into thin strips
2 tablspns oil (omit for microwave)
2 onions, thinly sliced
1 pkt Continental Dutch Curry and Rice Soup
1/4 cup Rosella Tomato Sauce
2 cups water (1&1/2 cups for microwave)
1 apple, cored and sliced
cashew nuts for sprinkling

Brown beef in oil in heavy based pan. Add onions, soup mix, tomato sauce, water and apple. Bring to boil, cover, simmer gently for 1 hour. Serve with cashew nuts. Serve on bed of boiled rice.

Microwave directions:
Place all ingredients except nuts into microwave casserole. Cover. Cook on HIGH for 5 mins, then on medium for 30-35 mins. Serve on bed boiled rice.

Source: contributed by Fay Rickard in Camden Primary Recipe Book. Compiled by Linda Mc Gee & Dianne Goldsworthy ([Adelaide], n.p., n.d. [late 1980s-early 1990s]), p.25.

Speedy Spiced Pate

8 oz. lieberwurst
4 ozs. creamed cheese
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
3 tablespoons cream
1 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1 tablespoon brandy
salt and pepper

Method: Mix lieberwurst and softened cream cheese with mayonnaise, cream and Worcestershire sauce, curry and brandy -- season to taste.

Source: contributed by Audrey Allan (Hope Lodge, No. 75) in The Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of South Australia presents Favourite Recipes submitted by wives of South Australian Freemasons (Adelaide, 1979), p.15.

Chocolate Delight with Strawberry Sauce

500 grms dark chocolate
200 grms white marshmallow
200ml cream
1/4 cup castor sugar
4 x 75 grm turkish delight bars
1 pkt tim tams
500 grms strawberries (fresh or frozen)

Chop turkish delight, tim tams and marshmallows. Melt chocolate and stir into chopped ingredients and cream. Pour into 8" spring form tin. Let set. Place strawberries and castor sugar in blender. Blend until smooth. To serve place thin slice of chocolate delight on plate and pour strawberry sauce on top or to the side.

Source: contributed by Anne Magryn in Camden Primary Recipe Book. Compiled by Linda Mc Gee & Dianne Goldsworthy ([Adelaide], n.p., n.d. [late 1980s/early 1990s]), p.47.

Baked Steak

1 lb. topside steak
1/2 packet pea and ham soup
1 onion sliced
3 tablespoons water or claret

Method: Trim the steak and rub into soup mixture both sides, place the meat on tin foil (well greased), place in shallow roasting dish, add the sliced onions and liquid, cover with foil, bake in moderate oven for 1&1/2 hours or till tender.

Source: contributed by Dorothy Steer (Torrensville Lodge, No. 58) in The Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of South Australia presents Favourite Recipes submitted by wives of South Australian Freemasons (Adelaide, 1979), p.18.

Cuban Chicken

4 boneless chicken breasts
1 tablspn Oil
1 pkt Spring Veg soup mix
2 bananas, sliced
1 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup water

Heat oil and brown chicken and bananas, set bananas aside. Add combined soup mix, pineapple juice and water to chicken. Stir until boiling. Cover and simmer gently for 15 mins, until cooked. Add bananas and reheat before serving with rice or vegetables.

Source: contributed by Jean Potter in Camden Primary Recipe Book. Compiled by Linda Mc Gee & Dianne Goldsworthy ([Adelaide], n.p., n.d. [late 1980s-early 1990s]), p.19.

Humble Stomach Soup

As you prepare meals, wash all sound scraps of vegetables (skin and tops of carrots, ribs and stems of green peppers, etc.), place in plastic bag, close with rubber band, and pop in freezer. Do the same with meat trimmings and bones. When both bags are full, boil up a saucepan of water, add a teaspoon of salt and one of vinegar, put in meat scraps and bones, boil rapidly for 20 minutes, remove from heat, and allow to cool. Reheat, strain, cool, remove fat, bring back to boil, add vegetable scraps, and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain. You now have the base of any one of the "Humble Stomach" soups my family enjoy, and it really hasn't cost you anything. Don't forget to add scraps of left-over salads to the vegetable bag - lettuce in particular gives a lift to soup flavour.

Source: contributed by Mrs. A. V. Eszenyi, Clarence Park, S.A. in Cook-Along with the Autistic Children's Association of South Australia Inc. (Adelaide: Allied Publishing Co., n.d. [1971-1972]), p.5.