Jewel Island

Encourage young people to eat what's good for them, serve fruit salad in a scooped out orange with bright chopped jelly garnish.

Source: contributed by C. Franke in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.42.

Orange and Kiwi Tango

8 oranges
1/4 cup grenadine
4 kiwi fruit
3 tablespoons Grand Marnier
1 tablespoon sugar

1. Remove peel from one orange with a vegetable peeler. Cut peel into fine julienne strips. Place strips in saucepan[,] cover with water, boil 15 minutes.

2. Drain -- rinse under cold water -- spread on absorbent paper to dry. Bring grenadine to boil, add orange strips, reduce heat -- simmer gently uncovered until grenadine has evaporated.

3. Peel oranges thickly, removing all pith. Segment oranges[,] combine in basin with peeled and thinly sliced kiwi fruit. Sprinkle with Grand Marnier and sugar. Cover, refrigerate several hours or overnight. Serve with orange shred. Serves four.

Source: contributed by Margaret Glazbrook ('A Touch of Elegance') in Personality Recipe Book. All proceeds to The Adelaide Children's Hospital 'Girl of the Year' Quest ([Adelaide]: n.p.; n.d. [1983-1985]), p.61.

Fruit Salad Jam

7 lb. melons, 5&1/4 lb. sugar, 2 oranges, 1 lemon, 3 bananas, 2 apples (grated), 1 small tin crushed pineapple, 5 passionfruit.

Method: Cut or mince melon, sprinkle 1 cup sugar and stand overnight. Shred oranges and lemon, bruise bananas with fork. Put all fruit in pan except passionfruit, with rest of sugar and bring to boil. Simmer 1&1/2 hrs., add passionfruit, boil 1/2 hr. or until jellies.

Source: contributed by Mrs T. P. Wakefield in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.78.

Watermelon Basket

Van Dyke the edges of the watermelon. Ball the watermelon, discarding any seeds and return fruit to the basket.

Source: The Parson Knows: Easy Dinner Party Recipes (The Parish of St. Stephen, Glenunga; n.d.), p.85.

Exotic Fruit Salad

Rockmelon, strawberries, passionfruit, bananas.

Method: Cut rockmelon in half and scoop out the fruit into round balls. Prepare and hull strawberries. Combine rockmelon, strawberries and passionfruit into a bowl. Refrigerate. Before serving, add bananas. Serve with cream and ice cream.

Source: contributed by Chris Hough in Angaston Kindergarten Jubilee Cookery Book 1955-1985. 1986 edition (Angaston, 1986), p.36.

Fruit Salad

1 cup stoned prunes                         } soak in 1 cup marsala 
1 cup dried apricots cut in halves  } for 24 hours or more
Add drained:
1 small tin diced pineapple
1 small tin mandarin segments
1 small tin black cherries

Method: Mix well. Serve with cream or icecream. May be kept for months in fridge.

Source: contributed by Mollie Ogden in The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.70.

Fruit Salad for 80 Guests

20 apples (6 lbs.), 27 bananas (9 lbs.), 20 oranges, 4 pineapples, passionfruit, sugar to sweeten.

Source: contributed by Mrs. C. F. Schulze in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.49.

Orange Surprise

4 oranges
Fruit salad (drained of juice)
White curacao (optional)
2 level tablespoons sugar
2 egg whites

Method: Cut top off oranges, remove pulp with sharp knife and spoon, keeping shell intact. Pour in a dessertspoon curacao, then fill with fruit salad. Pipe meringue on top of each orange, sealing carefully. Bake in quick oven until meringue sets (2 mins. only). Serve in individual glass dishes. 

Source: contributed by Mrs. Warwick Hancock in The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.56.