Potato and Cheese Flan - Economical

Potato Pastry

2 oz flour

2 oz cooked potatoes

1 oz fat

pinch salt

Filling

2-3 oz cooked potatoes

1/2 egg

1&1/2 oz grated cheese

salt and pepper

1/2 gill milk

Method: Pastry - Cream mashed potatoes and fat thoroughly together. Work in flour and salt making a fairly stiff dough. No liquid should be necessary. Knead, roll out and line a sandwich tin or plate.

Filling - Mix all ingredients together, pour into pastry case and bake in a hot oven for 25-30 minutes. (Filling can be varied - sardines or mullet in place of cheese, tomatoes and chopped boiled eggs instead of, or as well as, cheese, etc.)

Source: The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.9.

Vegetable Lattice Flan

This decorative dish has a wonderful flavour and is cheap and easy to make. It is a meal by itself.

A flan tin is lined with short crust pastry, a mixture of diced vegetables - carrots, onions, parsnip, pe[a]s, triamble, any veg. (500g)

About 750 gm mashed potato and cheese sauce.

Bake the flan, blind, when it is cold fill with the vegetables mixed with cheese sauce. Then pile potato on top and make a pattern on top with a fork. Brush the surface with melted butter.

Bake moderate to hot oven until nicely browned. Cut into wedges & serve.

Source: contributed by Dulcie Stacey in Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.45.

'Uncooked' Flan Filling

Fill uncooked flan with mixture of mixed dried fruits (sultanas, raisins, currants, mixed peel, cherries). Just about cover with cream (good way to use leftover which needs using). Sprinkle with sugar, and optional coconut. I add a dusting of mixed spice before adding cream. Special occasions add chopped nuts and stir rum through the fruit before putting into the base. (Very rich - only need a sliver served). Then cook as usual or until slightly golden.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.121.