Avocado Supreme

2 large avocados
1 cup chicken stock (made from 2 chicken cubes)
1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
Salt and pepper
Juice from half a lemon

Method: Take enough avocado to make one cup. Combine all other ingredients in blender and blend until smooth. Chill in covered bowl until ready to serve. Just before serving chop remaining avocado, dip in lemon juice and add to soup. Dust with paprika or dill as desired.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Russell Ellis (A.C.H. Springfield/Netherby Auxiliary) in The Adelaide Children's Hospital Recipe Book 1978 (Port Adelaide: Messenger Press, 1978), p.6.

Breakfast relish balls

Mince any cold meat (mutton, beef or ham)

2 oz breadcrumbs

1/4 tsp lemon peel

salt and pepper to taste

1 egg

parsley and/or chives or dill.

pinch nutmeg or other spices of your choice

Method: Combine meat, lemon peel and spices and then shape into balls and dip into beaten egg and roll in breadcrumbs and fry in hot fat/oil. Garnish with herbs and lemon slices.

Source: Elizabeth Woolcock's Cottage Recipes - compiled and edited by Ani Peters (?Adelaide, S.A, 2016), p.13

[Note: this souvenir recipe book, bought in October 2021 at the Moonta Mines Museum, has little relevance to the short, brutalized life of Elizabeth Woolcock (the only woman hanged in South Australia).]

Instant Salmon Pie

Equipment Needed:

Mixing bowl

Grater

Cup

Beater

23 cm Tart plate

Preparation Time: 15 minutes

Cooking Time: 35 minutes

Serves 6

Ingredients:

125 grams (1/2 packet) Cheese Jatz biscuits (roughly crushed)

3 Eggs (lightly beaten)

1/2 cup Milk

1/2 cup Plain Flour

1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder

60 grams Butter (melted)

1/2 cup grated tasty Cheese

285 gram can Salmon, well drained and flaked

Handful fresh Dill, roughly chopped

Method:

Heat oven to 210°C. Place crushed biscuits in the base of the tart plate. Place milk, flour, eggs and baking powder in the bowl and mix until well combined. Add cheese, salmon, dill and melted butter and thoroughly mix. Pour over the crushed biscuits in the tart plate and cook in the oven for 35 minutes until puffed and golden brown.

Source: Quick and Easy Savouries (Kent Town: The South Australian Country Women's Association Incorporated, n.d. [2000s]), n.p.