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.

Salmon Mousse

2 & 1/2 dessertspn gelatine

1 & 3/4 cups hot water

1 teaspn salt

2 tabspn white vinegar

2 gherkins, finely diced

chopped olives (6)

1 tabspn green pepper diced

1/2 cup mayonnaise

1/2 cup whipped cream

16 oz can salmon

Method: Dissolve gelatine in water, add salt, chill. When slightly thickened beat until consistency of whipped cream. Fold in vinegar, gherkins, olives, green pepper and then mayonnaise, cream and flaked salmon. Mix and turn into fish-shaped mould if you have one. Chill until firm. Turn onto a bed of shredded lettuce and watercress. Garnish with green mayonnaise. Serve with cucumber and tomato salad.

Source: contributed by Maurine Flint in The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.79.

Creative Liver Pate

1 kg chicken livers

250 g butter

3 tabspns brandy

1 onion, chopped

1 red capsicum, chopped

3 rounds ham, chopped

1 tspn salt

1 chicken cube

1 sprig fresh thyme

1 tspn French or Dijon mustard

1/2 tspn fresh nutmeg

fresh ground black pepper

Method: Wash livers. Melt half the butter, add livers and toss. Add onion, capsicum and ham, and toss. Simmer gently 5 minutes. In a separate pan warm the brandy. Turn off the exhaust fan, pour brandy over livers, ignite and shake. Put lid on pan, simmer gently about 10-15 minutes. Remove pan from heat and cool a little. Tip contents into food processor, and add all remaining ingredients - blend till smooth.

Creatively add either walnut pieces, or blanched almonds, or sliced mushrooms or slice stuffed olives or ……

Garnish to serve accordingly.

Note This pate freezes really well, and children love it.

Source: contributed by Alvena Hall in The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.5.

Salami Canapes

8 ozs. sliced Salami Sausage

1-2 eggs (scrambled in a little butter with seasoning and a teaspoon of tomato ketchup to taste)

1 small can Baked Beans

1 small can Potato Salad

Chopped stuffed Olives and pickled onions for garnish

Method: Arrange slices of salami (with skin in place) on rack and place under a hot grill for a few seconds only, when they will curl up round the edges forming small cups. Fill salami cups with filling to taste, e.g. baked beans in tomato sauce, scrambled eggs, potato salad. Garnish with slices of stuffed olives and onions.

Source: Recipes for Slices and Snacks: Heartbeat Inc. Assistance Group, Adelaide Central Branch (Adelaide: n.d. [early 1980s?]), p.78.

Eggstatic Spread

5 hard-boiled eggs, mashed, 3 dspns mayonnaise, 2 tspns vinegar, 1 tspn prepared mustard, 2 dspns chopped olives.

This mixture is suitable for sandwich filling, spread for crackers, or as a dip.

Source: Well Tried Barossa Recipes (Tanunda: St John's Lutheran Ladies Guild; reprint 2000 of 2nd edition 1975 [1st edn 1974]), p.3.

Chicken Savoy

12 ozs cubed chicken cooked, 2 ozs can mushrooms, 2ozs butter, 1 sliced red capsicum, 1 sliced onion, 1 cup white sauce (with 1/2 tspn chopped parsley)[,] 4 olives, 4 slices of buttered toast.

Method: Fry capsicum in butter, add mushrooms and onion. Stir into sauce, add chicken. Pile on toast and garnish with olive.

Source: A Pinch of Salt [n.p.: Hansen Press; n.d. [pre-metric?]; Introduction: "women of the Lucindale District who answered the call for their tried favourite recipes… to raise funds for a very worthy cause. The Spastic Children."], p.4.

Rice Salad

Amount of ingredients depending on the number of servings.

Cook rice in salted water. Do not overcook. Drain, and rinse in cold water. Put aside and prepare the following salad into which rice will be tossed.

Sliced mushrooms (1 can)

Sliced artichokes (1 can)

Lamb's tongue (boil, remove skin & chop finely)

Tuna, shredded (1/2 tin)

Stoned olives (chopped)

Anchovies (2 - 3)

Oil, salt and pepper and the juice of 1 lemon.

Mix all ingredients together - including the rice.

Source: contributed by R. Mascolo in Trinity Gardens Primary School Recipe Book (Adelaide, n.d.), p.6.

Seafood Pie

Crust -

2 cups cooked rice

2 teaspoons curry

1 onion, finely chopped

2 oz. melted butter

Combine all ingredients and press into a greased 9" pie plate.

Filling -

1 medium can Salmon or Tuna, drained and flaked

2 eggs

1&1/2 cups milk

1/2 cup grated cheese

Salt and pepper and squeeze lemon juice

1 Tablespoon chopped parsley

Thoroughly combine all ingredients for filling, and spoon in to prepared crust. Bake in moderate oven 325F 35-40 minutes until set. Garnish with lemon slices and olives.

Source: contributed by W. Mitchell in Trinity Gardens Primary School Recipe Book (Adelaide, n.d.), p.12.

Bacon Savouries

2 rashers bacon, finely chopped

2 stuffed olives

1 tbs canned capsicum

3 spring onions, chopped

14 slices of bread

1 cup tasty cheese, grated

2 tbs mayonnaise

1 tbs chopped parsley

1/4 tsp curry

30g melted butter

Method: Cook bacon until crisp then drain. Mix bacon, cheese, olives, mayonnaise, capsicum, parsley, onions and curry. Mix well. Remove crusts from bread. Flatten bread with rolling pin. Spread mixture on bread and roll up and secure with a toothpick. Cut bread in half. Brush with butter. Bake in oven at 180° for 10 minutes. Serve hot.

To freeze: Pack in airtight container for up to two months.

To reheat, place on greased tray and bake in slow oven for 20 minutes.

Source: The Wentworth Private Residential Care Cookbook (Aberfoyle Park [Adelaide], ?2008), p.9

Crab Triangles

250 gms Filo Pastry

125 gms butter

CRAB FILLING

6 green Shallots

1 tlbspn Madeira or Dry Sherry

2 Hard Boiled Eggs (optional)

1 tlbspn Chopped Olives

45 gms Butter

250 gms Crab Meat

1 Egg Yolk

Salt & Pepper

BECHANNEL [sic] SAUCE

1/3 Cup Milk

Sliced Onion

Few cracked Peppercorns

Some Mace (optional)

1/2 Bay Leaf

45 gms Butter

3 tlbspn Plain Flour

Green Herbs (optional)

Method: Finely chop shallots & saute in butter until softened. Flake crab & remove any bony tissue. Add to shallots with remaining filling ingredients and blend into bacchanal [sic] sauce. Lay filo pastry flat on a damp tea towel and cover with a 2nd tea towel, so pastry doesn't dry out. Melt butter and brush each sheet of filo & fold in half. Cut filo into 3rds. Brush with butter again. Place a large teaspoon of filling in corner and fold into triangles. Brush triangles with butter. Place on ungreased tray and bake in Mod over 190 C for 45 mins or until puffed & golden brown. Serve piping hot. (Can use any Seafood).

Source: contributed by K. Eldredge in Cookbook: St Joseph's School, Clare (Clare: St Joseph's School, 1991), p.12.

Cheese and Asparagus Savoury

2 tbspns butter

1 small tin asparagus tips

salt and pepper to taste

2 tbspns powdered milk

1 cup tasty grated cheese

1 dspn chopped parsley

Method: Cream butter, add powdered milk, salt and pepper and parsley. Lastly mix in drained asparagus. Chill. Spread on savoury crackers and decorate with olive slices.

Source: contributed by B. Swalling in S.C.N.H. [Southern Cross Nursing Homes] 1st Floor Cook Book No. 2 (?North Plympton; n.d.), p.161.

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Cheese Olive Puffs

2 cups grated mature cheese

1 cup plain flour

1/2 cup butter/margarine

1 tsp paprika

salt and pepper

5 dozen stuffed olives (approximately 375g jar)

Method: Combined first 5 ingredients until well mixed and smooth. Take a small piece of cheese pastry slightly larger than the olive and roll into a ball. Make a hole with thumb, pop in an olive and roll to cover. Chill balls in refrigerator until firm, then freeze in a plastic bag until required. Take straight from freezer and place on a baking tray. Bake at 200C (400F) for 15 minutes until golden.

Source: contributed by Adelaide Legacy Club in A Legacy of Recipes (Adelaide: Legacy Club of Adelaide, 1991), p.44

Editor's note: in my family these are known as "sheep eyes", for the visual effect after one has taken a bite.

Veal and Chicken Salad

2 cups cooked chicken chopped
1 cup cooked veal chopped
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 cup diced celery
1/2 teaspoon salt and pinch of pepper
Lettuce or cabbage leaves
1/2 cup mayonnaise
stuffed olives

Method: Combine all meat, celery and chopped nuts with the mayonnaise and season with salt and pepper. Toss until mayonnaise binds the solids together and spoon mixture onto lettuce or cabbage leaves. Top each serving with a stuffed olive and chill before serving.

Source: contributed by A. Myers 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.54.

Creamy Mushroom Pick-ups

8 oz pkt cream cheese
2 tbspns butter
2 tbspns brandy
1/2 tspn Worcestershire sauce
1/8 tspn mustard
1/2 tspn Soy sauce
Pinch pepper
12 large mushroom caps
Sliced stuffed olives

Method: Beat first 7 ingredients together until smooth, pipe into mushroom caps. Decorate with sliced olives. Chill well before serving as an hors d'oeuvre.

Source: Well Tried Barossa Recipes (Tanunda: St John's Lutheran Ladies Guild; reprint 2000 of 2nd edition 1975 [1st edn 1974]), p.2.

Orange Appetiser

Method: Remove the pulp from required number of halved oranges & cut into small pieces. Mix with some finely chopped halved walnuts, several minced & stoned olives, & a small proportion of chopped tart apple. Mix 2 tab. sherry with 1 tab. honey, pour over the mixed fruits, stir lightly. Pile into empty orange skins. As an alternative to the sherry & honey dressing, toss the fruits in a good creamy salad dressing mixed with its own quantity of strained orange juice.

Source: contributed by Mrs. John Kirk in 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.5.