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.

Fe[i]joa Cake

2 x 8" sponge tins, thickly greased with butter. Coat sides and bottom with cocoanut.

Beat 1 tin Carnation milk with 2 teaspoons vanilla until thick, add 4 tablespoons castor sugar and beat.

Dissolve 7 teaspoons gelatin in 1/2 cup boiling water, add to mix and beat. Add pulp of several Fe[i]joa and set.

Make lemon jelly with juice from tin of tropical fruit salad. Add a little of the fruit.

Join with cake mixture and cover with cream.

Source: Recipes tested by time... Centenary Cookery Book from 1840 (The Historical Society of Woodville, 1980), p.52.

Fruit Salad Slice

1 sm tin fruit salad (drained)

6 marshmallows (cut in pieces)

vanilla

6 sliced bananas

1 extra banana

1/2 pint cream

pinch icing sugar

Method: Whip cream, icing sugar and vanilla until thick. Add fruit and marshmallows and carefully add 1 tbs lemon juice. Spread on any biscuit base. Cut into squares to serve. [Serves 6]

Source: The Parson Knows: Easy Dinner Party Recipes (The Parish of St. Stephen, Glenunga; n.d.), p.49 ['Winter Menu']

Savoury Dip

1 carton sour cream, lge.
1 pkt. Philadelphia cream cheese, lge.
1 tin Golden Circle tropical fruit salad. Strain liquid off
2 tabs. chopped chives

Method: Mix all ingredients together and allow to stand overnight if possible. If too thin, add more cheese.

Source: contributed by L. McMartin in The Adelaide Children’s Hospital Recipe Book 1979 (Adelaide; 1979), p.8.

Fruit Salad Cream

1 tin fruit salad
1 bottle cream
6 ozs marshmallows

Method: Beat cream until stiff, add fruit. Stir. Lastly add marshmallows and beat well. Place in the refrigerator until required.

Source: contributed by Mrs. E. W. Lines in Food for Thought. Favourite Recipes Specially Contributed By 222 Adelaide Hostesses to Aid the S.A. Association for Mental Health (Adelaide: n.d. [late 1960s?]), p.35.