Amy Johnson Cake

Pastry:
Rub 2 tablespoons butter or margarin[e] into 1 cup of S.R. Flour, sieved with pinch of salt. Add a little milk to make a firm dough. Roll out and line cake tin, one deeper than a swiss roll tin. Spread with plum and raspberry jam and sprinkle with currants.

Cake:
Beat 2 tablespoons butter with small cup sugar, add 2 eggs, and beat well. Add a little milk and 1 cup S.R. Flour sifted with a pinch of salt. Spread cake mixture over currants and bake in a moderate oven.

When cool, ice with lemon icing and cut into oblong pieces.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Fund Recipe Book (Kurralta Park: Colour Printing House Pty. Ltd., c.1985), p.93.

Australia Cake

6 ozs. butter, 6 ozs. sugar, 3 eggs, 12 ozs. S.R. flour, about 6 tablespoons milk, few drops vanilla, raspberry jam, cochineal to colour. Cream butter and sugar till light, add beaten eggs gradually, and beat well. Add sifted flour alternately with sufficient milk to provide a soft, dropping consistency. Put one half of mixture into well-greased cake tin. Spread with raspberry jam. Colour remaining half of mixture pink with cochineal, and spread evenly over jam. Bake in moderate oven 1&1/4 to 1&1/2 hours. Turn carefully on to cake cooler. When cold, ice top - one half pink, the other white. Or use white icing and sprinkle white coconut on the one half, pink on the other (rubbed in drop of cochineal and dried first).

Source: contributed by Mrs. R. J. Harrip (Berri) in The South Australian Country Women's Association Calendar of Cakes: A Cake a Day for 365 Days (Kent Town: S.A.C.WA.; 11th edition, 1973), 'Jan. 29'.

Scramble Pudding

1/2 lb. Flour

1/2 lb. Bread crumbs

1/2 lb. Suet

1/2 lb. Raspberry Jam

Mix all well together with a little milk; boil 2 hours.

Source: A Small Collection of Plain Cookery Recipes, for Household Use. Compiled by Annie Bishop, Demonstrator for S.A. Gas Coy. (Adelaide: J. H. Sherring & Co., Leigh Street, 1911), p.27

Tomato Jam - Raspberry Jam

6 lb ripe tomatoes

5 lb sugar

1 tin raspberry jam

1 bottle raspberry cordial - Bobo

Method: Chop tomatoes and boil 1/2 hour. Add sugar and boil 3/4 hour. Stand 5 mins. Add jam and cordial and stir well. Bottle while still hot.

Source: contributed by Marione Mansfield in The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.85.

Matrimonials

1&1/2 cups S.R. Flour

185 gr. (6 ozs.) Butter or Margarine

1/2 cup Rolled Oats

1 cup Coconut

1 cup Brown Sugar

Raspberry jam, warmed slightly

Method: Sift flour, cut butter into small pieces and rub into flour until mixture resembles breadcrumbs. Add rolled oats, coconut and sugar, and stir until thoroughly mixed in.

Divide into halves, put one half into greased 28 x 18 cm (11" x 7") lamington tin, firmly pressing flat. Pour warmed jam over, covering surface, spreading evenly.

Sprinkle rest of mixture over jam, covering it, and bake in moderately hot oven about 30 minutes. Let cool slightly in tin, then cut into slices and loosen edges. Leave until cold before removing from tin.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.42.

Mock Raspberry Jam

Mock Raspberry Jam (1)

6 lb sugar, 6 lb tomatoes, 1 small tin raspberry jam, 1 bottle raspberry cordial extract.

Skin tomatoes and cook till tender, add sugar, boil till sets. Add raspberry jam and cordial, boil further 10 minutes.

Mock Raspberry Jam (2)

12 lb melon, 8 lb sugar, 1 bottle raspberry cordial extract, 1 tin raspberry jam.

Mince melon finely. Sprinkle over 4 lbs sugar, leave stand overnight. Next day boil till clear, add remaining sugar, extract and raspberry jam and boil till it sets on saucer.

Source: contributed by Shirley Rorhlach and Avis Scherer in Blyth Recipe Book: Favourite Tested Recipes of the Blyth Trinity Lutheran Ladies Guild (Blyth Womens Guild, 1972), pp.55, 56.

Mock Raspberry Jam

3kg peeled tomatoes
1 bottle raspberry extract
1 tin raspberry jam
2.1/2kg sugar

Method: Cook tomatoes for 20 minutes, add sugar and boil 35 minutes. Then add jam and extract. Boil again for 10 minutes.

Source: contributed by R. Curnow in The Princess Royal Cookbook compiled by a sub-committee of The Muscular Dystrophy Association of South Australia (Kent Town: Peacock Publications, 1984 reprint of 1981 first edition; ISBN 0909209502), p.110.

Hint

To give your chocolate cake a new filling, try two mashed bananas mixed with two tablespoons raspberry jam and whipped cream. It's really something!!

Source: Food for Thought. Favourite Recipes Specially Contributed By 222 Adelaide Hostesses to Aid the S.A. Association for Mental Health (n.d. [late 1960s?]), p.51.