Chicken and Beef Balls

1 pkt. chicken noodle soup, 1 cup soft bread crumbs, 1 small onion, 1 lb. minced steak, 1/2 lb. sausage meat, 1 egg.

Method: Add chicken noodle soup to 1/2 pt. boiling water and cook 5 minutes. Cool, place in basin, bread crumbs, onion (finely chopped), minced steak, sausage meat and egg. Add cooked soup mixture, and combine evenly. Shape into medium sized balls and roll in flour (little paprika optional). Cook and brown in hot shortening. Serve hot with spaghetti and tomato sauce.

Source: contributed by Mrs L. K. Stock in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.17.

Peanut Butter Bread

2/3 cup Peanut Butter
1 tablespoon Soft Shortening
2/3 cup Milk
3&1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/2 cup chopped peanuts
1 cup Sugar
1 Egg
2 cups sifted all purpose Flour
3/4 teaspoon Salt
1/3 cup Vinegar or Sherry

Method: Beat sherry, peanut butter, sugar, shortening, egg and milk together until blended and smooth, resift flour with baking powder and salt. Add to first mixture blending just until smooth. Stir in peanuts. Spoon into well greased loaf pan 8&1/2 by 4&1/2 by 2&3/4". Let stand 20 minutes. Bake at 350°F or Gas mark 4 (moderate oven) for 1&1/4 hours or just until loaf is done.

Turn onto wire rack. Cool thoroughly before storing.

Yield: 1 loaf.

Note: All purpose flour, also known as general purpose flour or family flour. This flour milled from selected high protein wheats. Self raising flour is made from all purpose flour to which leavening and salt have been added.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Fund Recipe Book (Kurralta Park: Colour Printing House Pty. Ltd., c.1985), p.108.

Little Steak & Kidney Rolls

750 g round steak 1/2" thick

3 sheeps' kidneys

4 rashers bacon

1 onion, grated

finely chopped parsley

pepper and salt

2 tabspns shortening (1/2 butter, 1/2 oil)

2 tabspns flour

1 tabspn tomato sauce

1/2 tspn nutmeg

1 dessertspn soy sauce

2 cups stock

Method: Trim the steak into pieces 1&1/2 x 4&1/2 inches.

Remove skin from kidneys and slice thinly. Divide the kidney between the steak pieces. Remove the rind from the bacon and chop two rashers small, sprinkle over kidney with a little pepper, salt, onion and chopped parsley. Roll up firmly and tie each with coarse cotton.

Roll in a little seasoned flour.

Heat butter and oil in pan and brown rolls evenly.

Remove rolls and place in a casserole. Add remaining flour and any pieces of parsley, onion, etc. left over.

Brown and add stock, sauces and nutmeg.

When boiling pour over rolls. Cover and bake in a moderate oven for 1&1/2 to 2 hours or until meat is cooked.

Take from the oven 20 minutes before cooking is completed and remove cotton from the rolls.

Cut the remaining bacon into short lengths and roll into small rolls, thread on short skewers and place on top of the meat.

Cook in the oven without the lid for the remainder of the cooking time.

Source: contributed by V. McGeorge in The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.28.

Curried Egg Mornay

1 pkt Continental chicken noodle soup, 1 & 1/2 cups boiling water, 1 oz copha or shortening, 2 level tbspns flour, 1 tbspn chopped parsley, 2 tspns curry powder, 1 cup milk, 4-6 hard-boiled eggs.

Method: Cook noodle soup in boiling water for 7 mins. Cool. Melt copha, stir in flour & curry powder. Add milk, & stir until boiling. Mix in soup, bring to boil. Add egg & parsley.

Source: [Two Hundred] Well Tried Barossa Recipes: St John's Lutheran Ladies Guild, Tanunda (New Edition, March 1975 [1st = October 1974], p.10.

Jam'N Oats

1&1/2 cups S.R. flour

1&1/2 cups rolled oats

1 cup apricot jam

1/2 cup brown sugar

3/4 cup shortening

Method: Mix dry ingredients and rub in shortening until crumbly. Put half on bottom and press well. Spread jam, put remainder on top of jam. Bake in moderate oven for 35 minutes.

Source: contributed by J. Lemon in Gulnare Gourmets (Adelaide: Gulnare Primary School Welfare Club, 1984 [2nd edition]), p.80.