Pizza

4 oz SR flour, 1 oz butter, 1/2 tspn salt, milk to make soft dough.

Method: Mix and roll out to size of pizza tray. Spread with tomato paste, add onions (which have been previously cooked), add bacon (cut into small strips) and top with grated cheese. Bake in a fairly hot oven 15-20 mins. Or top with fried onions and a can of spaghetti.

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

Pizza Pie

Scone dough: 8 ozs. S.R. flour, 3/4 cup milk, 1 oz. butter, pinch salt. Sift flour and salt, rub in butter, add milk and mix to soft dough. Roll out thinly to line pizza pie tray or pyrex plate. This mixture makes two pies.

Filling: 1 small finely chopped onion, 1 cup grated cheese, 1/2 cup thick white sauce, 1/2 cup tomato puree, 1 tin sardines (drained and mashed). Spread sardines over base of dough, sprinkle onion and then grated cheese. Mix sauce and tomato and spread over pie and bake in hot oven 450 deg. for 15-20 minutes.

Variation filling: 1/2 cup chopped bacon, 1 small diced onion, 1/2 cup sweetcorn, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1/2 cup white sauce, 1/2 cup tomato puree.

Source: contributed by Mrs. M. P. Wakefield in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.6

Melva Taylor's Tasty Morsels

SCONES - you can do all sorts of things with a basic recipe - 1 egg / 1 dess. sugar / 1 small cup milk / salt / 1 tabs. melted butter / 2 cups SR Flour.

SAVOURY - add 1 tabs. french onion soup in milk, add butter, stir, add to flour, mix with a knife. Knead on a floured board, cut out, place close to one another on a greased tray, glaze with milk.

TIME - 10 minutes hot oven (top shelf)

Can be cooked in small electric toaster oven.

OTHER SUGGESTIONS: grated cheese and cayenne pepper, chicken cube crumbled into the flour / curry powder / gherkin and herbs.

Leave out the sugar for savoury scones.

This mixture can serve as a pizza base when in a hurry.

SWEET - grated apple and honey can replace sugar. Grated orange and lemon rind, glaze with orange juice.

ROLL - flatten dough out - spread grated cheese and shallots - roll up - cut into slices and cook.

SALMON ROLL - drain can tuna/salmon, chop an onion and mix all with a little lemon juice, spread on dough, fold over like a pasty, slit across top 3 times, and cook with 1/4 can cream of chicken soup poured over as a sauce.

COOKED in a well kneaded lump (like damper) with grated cheese and bacon pieces on top or sprinkle of french onion soup etc. replaces bread with a meal. Very tasty.

Place tea towel in a colander and cover scones when cooked until needed. Stale scones can be revived by dipping in milk, popping in oven for a few minutes to warm through and freshen up.

Source: Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.14.

Impossible Pizza

500g (1lb) mince meat

1.1/2 cups milk

3 eggs

1 cup grated cheese

1 large onion

3/4 cup SR Flour

sliced tomato

parsley

Method: Cook together mince and onion chopped finely. Stir in 1/2 tspn salt, pepper and herbs to taste. Discard any fat or juices and spread in greased pie plate. Mix together and beat well the milk, flour and eggs and pour carefully over the mince. Bake at 400F (200C) for 25mins. Remove from oven and top with sliced tomato and sprinkle with grated cheese and parsley. Return to the oven for about 10mins, or until cheese has melted and browned.

Source: contributed by J. Huston in Lutheran Jubilee 150 Cook Book 1838-1988 Vol 2 by St. Paul's Congregation, Yorketown (1988), p.16.