Purple Poison Punch

[Cooking Children Can Do With Supervision]

4 cups cold milk

2 cups chilled ginger ale

1 cup cold unsweetened grape juice

1 & 1/2 cups vanilla ice cream

Method: Combine all ingredients in punch bowl. Stir with ladle. Use spoon to cut icecream into small pieces. Serve punch with ladle, add a piece of icecream to each cup.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.139.

Schnapper Veronique

3 lb. schnapper

1/4 cup butter

2 tablespoons chopped parsley

2 tablespoons chopped green pepper

1 cup cooked rice

1 cup dark grape juice

2 tablespoons chopped onion

4 oz. green grapes

1/2 cup diced celery

2 tablespoons grated orange rind

1/4 tablespoon ginger

Method: Clean, scale and wash fish. Trim the fins and tail with scissors and remove eyes. Melt butter and saute pepper, onion and celery, then add all but orange rind, green grapes and grape juice. Mix together and stuff fish with mixture. Sew up fish to secure stuffing. Place in greased dish, pour over grape juice, dot with butter and sprinkle orange rind over fish. Bake in moderate oven for 1/2 hour or until fish is dense white through flesh. Serve garnished with grape halves and sprigs of parsley. Serves 6.

Source: Memory Lane Cookbook (Rotary Club of Naracoorte, 1986), p.31.