Apricot Hors-d'oeuvre

Dried apricots, sherry, cashews, cream cheese.

Method: Soak dried apricots in sherry for 2 days. Drain, top with cream cheese and a cashew.

Source: contributed by S. Thompson in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.8.

Hawaiian Curry

1&1/2 lb. minced steak
1 dstp. oil or margarine
salt and pepper to taste
1 pkt. chicken noodle soup
1 dstp. coconut
1 dstp. lemon juice
6 ozs. beans sliced
1 tin mushrooms or champignons
1 small tin pineapple pieces and juice
1/4 lb. cashew nuts if desired
2 white onions (ringed)
1 tblsp. cornflour
2 beef cubes
1 cup water
1 tblsp. sultanas
1 cup carrots (cut into straws)
1 dstp. soy sauce
1 cup cooked rice
curry to taste

Method: Heat oil in frypan, add meat, onions, flour, salt and pepper, beef cubes, soy sauce, chicken noodle soup blended with the water. Saute for 5 mins., add curry, coconut, sultanas, lemon juice, carrot straws and beans. Place lid on pan and occasionally stir. Cook 10 minutes. Stir in mushrooms, cooked rice, pineapple pieces and juice. Add nuts just before serving.

Source: contributed by N. Bridgen, Mt. Remarkable, No. 62 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.26.

English Fillet Mornay

1 lb English fillet

few chopped chives

2 hard boiled eggs

2 teaspoons plain cashew nuts

Method: Slightly cook fillet and break into pieces, cut eggs in chunks, halve the cashew nuts, add chives.

1/4 lb eating margarine

dash cayenne pepper

1/2 pint milk

Put margarine and milk and pepper into saucepan - when milk warm, add 1 flat tablespoon cornflour mixed with a little cold milk to make a thin paste - stirring all the time. Then pour over the fish etc working it in thoroughly. Transfer to a casserole dish. Top mornay with breadcrumbs and grated mild cheese. Reheat when needed. Serves 4-6.

Source: contributed by C. Anderson in Royal Adelaide Hospital Cookery Book: Our Favourite Recipes (Adelaide: 1981, 1st edition), p.33.

Note: "English fillet" is classified by the Macquarie Dictionary Australian Word Map as "regional Australian English" found in the regions of Eyre and Yorke Peninsula and Adelaide (South Australia), the Wimmera and Mallee (Victoria) and Perth (Western Australia). It is smoked cod. 

Party Cheese Ball

1 lb. Philadelphia cream cheese, softened at room temperature

8 oz extra tasty Cracker Barrel cheese

1 tablespoon chopped red pepper or canned pimento

1 tablespoon chopped green pepper

1 tablespoon finely chopped onion

2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce

1 teaspoon lemon juice

1/2 teaspoon salt

pinch cayenne pepper

2 oz. cashew nuts, chopped

Method: Beat the cream cheese until smooth, blend in shredded cheese. Add red pepper or canned pimento, green pepper, onion, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, salt and cayenne pepper; mix well. Chill for at least 2 hours. Shape into a ball and roll in chopped cashew nuts. Chill. Serve surrounded with cracker biscuits or Melba toast, providing a small knife for spreading.

Variation: Omit cashew nuts and roll in toasted chopped almonds or in chopped parsley. 

Source: Memory Lane Cookbook (Rotary Club of Naracoorte, 1986), p.16.

Spinach Salad

bunch spinach

onion

pinenuts / cashews

bacon

mushrooms

anything else in fridge

Dressing:

tomato sauce

garlic

2 tbsp lemon juice

Worcestershire sauce

3/4 cup oil

Method: Mix dressing and pour over chopped dry ingredients.

Source: contributed by Jane Parker in Burra Kindy Cookbook (Burra, 2002)