Chocolate Fingers

1 heaped cup plain flour

1 tablespoon cocoa

3/4 cup sugar

4 tablespoons butter or margarine (less if soft)

1 egg

Vanilla

Pinch salt

Crushed walnuts

Method: Rub butter into flour, sugar and cocoa. Add beaten egg, salt and vanilla. Spread in shallow tin. Bake 30 minutes in moderate oven. When cool, ice with chocolate icing and sprinkle with crushed walnuts. Cut into small fingers.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Gwen Mueller, Canberra in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1979 (Adelaide: 1979), p.42.

Veal with Banana

Method: Take as many thin pieces of veal per person, and wrap each piece around a firm banana. Secure with toothpicks and brown in butter. Place them in an oven dish and cover with a good brown gravy and bake till done.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Peter Lloyd (Canberra A.C.T.) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1982 (Adelaide: 1982), p.26.