Sultana Cake (using Trombone)

6 oz. margarine
1 cup sugar
1 cup plain flour
1 cup S.R. flour
1&1/2 cups sultanas
vanilla
2 eggs
1 small cup trombone cooked and mashed

Method: Beat marg. and sugar, then add eggs, then flours, trombone, sultanas and essence. Line 7" square tin and bake at 300 deg. 1 hour then at 200 deg. till cooked. Finish top of cake with blanched almonds.

Source: contributed by Blanche Fry (Barossa Lodge, No. 49), M. Kempster (Lodge of Truth, No. 8) and Fan Warmington (Duke of Edinburgh Lodge, No. 16) in The Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of South Australia presents Favourite Recipes submitted by wives of South Australian Freemasons (Adelaide, 1979), p.78.

Savoury Onion Bread

1/2 lb butter or marg, 1 pkt french onion soup, 2-3 french sticks.

Cream softened butter with soup mix. Cut bread diagonally into slices. Spread cuts of bread generously with butter mix. Sandwich together in loaf shape. Wrap in foil, leaving partially opened at top. Bake in moderate to hot oven for 15-20 mins until loaves are crisp.

Source: contributed by S. Thompson in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.10.

Sweet & Sour Mornay

1&1/2 lbs stewing steak, cut into small pieces, just cover with water, then add 1 sliced onion, 1 can vegetable soup, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/2 cup vinegar, 1 dspn Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. Cook until steak is tender. Add 2 oz marg, 1 tin pineapple pieces (15 oz) and thicken with 1 tbspn flour blended with 1/2 cup water. Serves 6-8 people.

Source: contributed by M. Maas in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.5 ['Potpourri' insert].

Tuna Pie

Combine 1&1/2 cups crushed cheese biscuits (Golden Cheese) and 2 oz melted marg. Press into pie plate, saving few crumbs for topping.

Filling:- 8 oz can tuna, 1 cup carnation milk, 2 beaten eggs, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1 onion finely chopped and sauteed in butter, green pepper (optional). Combine and pour into tart case. Sprinkle with crumbs. Bake mod oven 30 mins until set.

Source: contributed by E. Dodd in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.3 ['Potpourri' insert].

Special Chocolate Cake

1&1/2 cups SR flour, pinch salt, 1 cup sugar, 1 rounded healed dspn cocoa, 1 tspn each instant coffee, ginger and cinnamon. Put dry ingredients in a bowl, add to this 1 egg and 1/2 cup milk, 1 dspn jam, 1/4 lb melted marg. Mix and then add 1/2 cup boiling water and 1/2 tspn carb soda. Bake 350 deg Gas 35 mins.

Source: contributed by T. Gutsche in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.67.

Sausage Apple Pie

1 lb. pork sausage mince
8 oz. macaroni
4 cooking apples
1 small onion
1 cup grated cheese
2 dessertspoons margarine
Salt and pepper
1&1/2 tablespoons plain flour
1 cup milk
1 dessertspoon chopped parsley
1/2 cup soft breadcrumbs

Method: Cook macaroni in large quantity of boiling salted water for 10 mins. drain. Brown sausage mince in large pan, stirring frequently to brown evenly; remove. Cut 6 thick apple slices and brown in fat in pan from sausage mince. Remove, add remaining apple (diced) and chopped onion to pan, brown slightly. Add flour, cook 1 min. stir in milk, salt and pepper; stir until boiling. Fold in macaroni, sausage mince, parsley and cheese. Fill into greased ovenproof dish. Arrange apple slices on top, sprinkle with breadcrumbs mixed with melted margarine. Bake in a moderate oven 20-30 mins. (350° F. Gas and 275° Elec.)

Source: contributed by Mrs. W. Ker in The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.25.

Egg Combo

Beat 12 eggs and 1/2 cup water mixed with 1 pkt cream chicken soup, salt and pepper. Place in frypan 300 deg. As egg mixture is cooking lift sides and allow uncooked mixture on top to flow underneath, cooking with margarine as required. When top egg mixture is nearly cooked, add chopped and browned cubes of bread, onion, pepper, bacon. Add small tin flaked drained tuna, small can 7 veg mix drained, slices of tomato, gherkins, sprinkle over parsley and grated cheese. Cook until cheese has melted. (Cook with lid on frypan.)

Source: contributed by R. Thorp in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.11.

Curried Egg Mornay

Boil together 1 pkt chicken noodle soup and 1&1/2 cups water for 7 mins. Melt 1 oz marg and 2 tspn plain flour and 1 small dspn curry powder and 2&1/2 cups of milk (add more milk if desired)[,] stir until boiling. Mix in soup and bring to boil again. Add 6-8 chopped hard boiled eggs and 1 tbspn chopped parsley. Place in casserole and top with cubes of buttered bread, bake until golden.

Source: contributed by R. Thorp in Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.6.

Hawaiian Curry

1&1/2 lb. minced steak
1 dstp. oil or margarine
salt and pepper to taste
1 pkt. chicken noodle soup
1 dstp. coconut
1 dstp. lemon juice
6 ozs. beans sliced
1 tin mushrooms or champignons
1 small tin pineapple pieces and juice
1/4 lb. cashew nuts if desired
2 white onions (ringed)
1 tblsp. cornflour
2 beef cubes
1 cup water
1 tblsp. sultanas
1 cup carrots (cut into straws)
1 dstp. soy sauce
1 cup cooked rice
curry to taste

Method: Heat oil in frypan, add meat, onions, flour, salt and pepper, beef cubes, soy sauce, chicken noodle soup blended with the water. Saute for 5 mins., add curry, coconut, sultanas, lemon juice, carrot straws and beans. Place lid on pan and occasionally stir. Cook 10 minutes. Stir in mushrooms, cooked rice, pineapple pieces and juice. Add nuts just before serving.

Source: contributed by N. Bridgen, Mt. Remarkable, No. 62 in The Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of South Australia presents Favourite Recipes submitted by wives of South Australian Freemasons (Adelaide, 1979), p.26.

No Cook Fruit Cake

8 oz (250g) coffee or arrowroot biscuits
1 T sherry
2 T cocoa
1 egg
1 T full cream dry powdered milk
4 T butter or margarine
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup mixed fruit
pinch salt

Method: Crush biscuits finely, add fruit, sherry, salt, powdered milk & cocoa. Beat egg & sugar together & add to dry ingredients. Melt butter & blend well through the mixture. Press into buttered tin. Allow to set & ice with white icing & sprinkle with coconut.

Source: contributed by Lisa Weckert, aged 8, to The Northern Automotive Restoration Club S. A. Inc. 10th Anniversary Cookbook . Compiled & typed by Lynne Newbold (Clare: Northern Argus, 1984) [Number 0408] - "dedicated to N.A.R.C. from it's [sic] feminine members."

Note: "T" = Tablespoon

Chocolate Biscuits - Uncooked

3 Weetbix, crumbled
1 cup plain flour
1 Tbsp cocoa
1 cup sugar
1 cup coconut
1/4 lb margarine, melted

Method: Mix all ingredients together and press into a long, flat, well greased tin. When set ice with chocolate icing and cut into squares.

Source: contributed by Ros Rowe in A Collection of Favourite Recipes - The Point Turton Progress Association ("All proceeds from the sale of this book will go toward improvements to the Point Turton Playground"). (n.p., 1995), p.63.

Seafood Casserole

2 chopped onions
2 oz margarine
1 dspn sultanas
1 large tin tuna
1 pkt Dutch curry & rice soup
2 chopped apples
1/2 cup chopped celery
salt & pepper to taste
lemon juice
nearly 2 cups water

Method: Fry onions, celery and apples lightly in margarine. Add soup, water and sultanas, mix well. Simmer very slowly for 15 mins. Add tuna and heat thoroughly. Can be served from fry pan with rice, or add grated cheese or breadcrumbs on top to brown in oven.

Source: Kelly's Cook Book. A New Collection of Favourite Recipes published by 'The Golden Girls' Port Lincoln Uniting Church 1997 (Adelaide: Queens Court Press, 1997), p.21.

Glace Savoury Hors d'Oeuvres

Remove the crusts of 1 medium sliced loaf of bread with an electric knife (if available) (25 slices per loaf). Spread margarine or butter on bread all over thinly (don't miss the edges). Place foil over large square serving tray.

Spreads:
    curried egg
    any Pecks canned paste you desire
    1 can Masterfood chicken paste
    1 Kraft blue vein cheese which has been creamed with a small packet of Philly cream cheese

Spread each piece of bread evenly with spreads right to the corners. Pack firmly together on tray alternately making a chess board effect. Top each piece of bread with decoration in four sections (bread will later be cut) using thinly sliced glazed cherry, gherkin, stuffed olive and tin[y] pieces of parsley leaves.

To make glace: Put 4 tsp gelatine on top of 100mls of warm water. Stir until dissolved. Spoon over bread until completely covered. Put in refrigerator for a few minutes. If not properly glace, brush on more gelatine with pastry brush over missed spots. Stick half toothpicks all over the bread platter to keep the plastic wrap off the top, then cover with plastic wrap and store in refrigerator. Cut into portions carefully and serve from this tray.

This may be made 2 days before using and it keeps quite fresh.

1 loaf makes 48 small portions.
2 trays 4 pieces of bread by 3 pieces.

Source: The Parson Knows: Easy Dinner Party Recipes (The Parish of St. Stephen, Glenunga; n.d.), p.77.

Walnut Damper Muffins

1/2 kg SR flour
1/2 tspn salt
1 Tbspn margarine
grated cheddar cheese
1/2 chopped onion
2 handfuls crushed walnuts
chives
milk

Method: Mix all ingredients together and add milk to form a dough. Place into muffin trays and cook for 15 mins in hot oven.

Source: Kelly's Cook Book. A New Collection of Favourite Recipes published by 'The Golden Girls' Port Lincoln Uniting Church 1997 (Adelaide: Queens Court Press, 1997), p.90.

Rice Bubble Biscuits

1/2 cup butter or margarine, 1 cup rice bubbles, 1 cup sugar, 1 well beaten egg, 1 cup S.R. flour, 1/2 tsp. vanilla.

Method: Cream butter and sugar, add egg and beat well. Add rice bubbles and flour and vanilla. Drop tsp. on slide and bake in mod. oven for 10 mins.

Source: contributed by Mrs J. H. Kelly in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.75.

Light Birthday Cake

4 ozs. S.R. flour.
4 ozs. plain flour.
6 ozs. butter or margarine.
6 ozs. sugar.
1 lb. mixed fruit.
2 ozs. almonds.
1/2 cup warm milk.
1/2 cup treacle.
3 eggs.
1 tablespoon brandy (if liked).

Method: Cream butter and sugar, add treacle, beat in eggs one at a time, then add fruit and flour with pinch salt, and mix alternately with milk. Lastly add brandy. Bake in moderate oven in 8" square or equivalent tin, lined with buttered paper. Gas 320 degrees in middle of oven 1&3/4 to 2 hours. Let cool in tin.

Source: contributed by Mrs. R. Duffner in The Walford Recipe Book. Compiled by the Parent-Teacher Association of the Walford Church of England Girls' School. (Adelaide: Messenger Press; October 1966), p.43.

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.

Moomba Slice

4 oz butter or margarine
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1 cup mixed fruit
2 cups self-raising flour
pinch salt
blanched almonds

Method: Melt butter or substitute in saucepan. When melted add 1 cup sugar and stir until combined, allow to cool slightly, but stir occasionally so mixture does not go hard. Add beaten egg, mixed fruit and flour. Mix and place in greased and lined slice tin. Cook at 375°[F] for 20 minutes. When cool, ice with lemon icing and sprinkle with blanched almonds.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Fund Recipe Book (Kurralta Park: Colour Printing House Pty. Ltd., c.1985), p.87.

[Microwave] Shrimp de Jonghe

3/4 cup margarine
4-5 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
1/4 teaspoon tarragon
1 tblspn. chopped parsley
dash of ground nutmeg
dash of dried thyme
1/4 tspn. chives, finely chopped
1/4 tspn. instant minced onion
1&1/2 tspns. salt
1/2 cup dry sherry
3/4 cup fine dry breadcrumbs
1kg. raw, shelled deveined shrimp

Method: Melt butter in a deep, 2 litre, heat resistant non-metal[l]ic casserole in microwave for 1 min. Add sliced garlic and heat uncovered for 2&1/2 minutes on high. Remove garlic from butter. Add tarragon, parsley, nutmeg, thyme, chives, onion[,] salt, sherry to butter and stir to combine. Remove 1/4 cup of seasoned butter and mix with 3/4 cup of breadcrumbs. Place shrimp in shallow 2 litre casserole with the remaining seasoned butter. Stir to coat shrimp. Sprinkle buttered breadcrumbs over shrimp. Heat uncovered in microwave for 10 minutes or until crumbs are brown and shrimp are pink. Do not over-cook shrimp as they will become tough. Serves 4.

Source: contributed by Dagmar Preusker in Angaston Kindergarten Jubilee Cookery Book 1955-1985. 1986 edition (Angaston, 1986), p.33.

Cornflake Tart

1 cup cornflakes, 1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup coconut, 1/2 cup sugar, 1/4 lb. butter or margarine, 1 dsp. honey.

Method: Melt butter, honey and sugar, pour over dry ingredients. Press into tin and bake in a very slow oven for 15 minutes.

Source: contributed by C. Pavy in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.27.