Chicken with Rice

1 large onion
1 cup chopped celery
1 large apple
2 oz. butter
2 cups cooked chicken
Pinch rosemary
1 tablespoon fruit chutney
Salt and pepper
1/2 cup dry sherry
1 8 oz. tin condensed cream of mushroom soup
A few breadcrumbs
1 cup rice

Method: Boil rice in salted water for 15 mins. Drain. Chop the onion, celery and apple and fry in butter until they are beginning to brown. Put a generous layer of rice in the base of a large ovenproof dish and make a hollow in the centre. Mix the cooked chopped chicken, rosemary, chutney, sherry, salt and pepper and condensed mushroom soup. Pour into the rice. Cover with the chopped apples and onions and sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Bake in moderate oven for 40 minutes. Makes 6 helpings.

Source: The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.40

Curried Meat Loaf

3 plums
1 T plum jam
750 g hamburger steak
1 T coconut
2 T sultanas
1 grated onion
2 t curry powder
1 cup breadcrumbs
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1 beaten egg
salt & pepper

Method: Simmer plums in water until tender, remove skin & chop flesh into small pieces. Put meat, plums, jam, coconut & sultanas into a bowl. Fry onion until soft, add the curry powder, stir over low heat for a minute, add to meat. Stir in crumbs, milk, beaten egg, salt & pepper. When blended, turn into a meat loaf tin & bake in a moderate oven about 1 hour. Leave in tin for 5 mins, pour off fat & turn out. Cool loaf & chill well, serve with fruit chutney & rice salad.
Serves 6-8.

Source: contributed by Dawn Ellis in The Northern Automotive Restoration Club S. A. Inc. 10th Anniversary Cookbook . Compiled & typed by Lynne Newbold (Clare: Northern Argus, 1984) [Number 0408] - "dedicated to N.A.R.C. from it's [sic] feminine members"; p.13.

Tasty Finger Bits

Can be served hot or cold. Add crushed pineapple for variation.

2 eggs
4 oz grated cheese
2 oz melted butter
pepper and salt
2 Tbspn fruit chutney
1 chopped onion
1 Tbspn Worcestershire Sauce
2 bacon rashers
quantity of sliced bread

Method: Beat eggs lightly, add cheese, salt and pepper, chutney, chopped onion and sauce and lastly add melted butter. Mix well. Spread mixture on slices of bread, cut into fingers and place a strip of bacon on each finger. Bake on greased oven tray in moderate oven for about 5 mins or until light brown.. Sometimes I will substitute the bacon for smoked oysters - also very nice.

Source: contributed by Gloria Wajwoda in Kelly's Cook Book. A New Collection of Favourite Recipes published by 'The Golden Girls' Port Lincoln Uniting Church 1997 (Adelaide: Queens Court Press, 1997), p.13.