Savoury Spread

1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon grated cheese
1/2 teaspoon curry powder
1 teaspoon vinegar
1 egg
2 tablespoons milk

Method: Blend butter, cheese and beat in other ingredients and cook in double saucepan until thick and creamy. Keeps well in fridge and makes a good spread for biscuits, etc.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Research Fund Recipe Book (Kurralta Park: Colour Printing House Pty. Ltd., c.1985), p.70.

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 Spread

Melt 2 tabspns. butter and fry 2 chopped onions. Add 1 pkt. Spring Vegetable Soup, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1 lge. diced tomato and 1 tspn. mixed herbs. Simmer one minute. Stir in a beaten egg and cook for a further 1 minute. Allow to cool and use in sandwich fillings or on French rolls.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.6.

Cucumber Spread

3&1/4 cups vinegar

2&1/2 cups sugar

1 teaspoon salt

Green food colouring

4 cucumbers

500g (1 lb.) onions

4 large green apples (unpeeled)

Method: Boil vinegar and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Add salt. Mince apples, cucumbers and onions. Add to boiling vinegar. Cook 2 hours or until thick. When cool tint with green food colouring.

Source: contributed by G. Kunoth in Gulnare Gourmets (Adelaide: Gulnare Primary School Welfare Club, 1984 [2nd edition]), p.133.

Chicken Paste

Boil 1 fowl until tender, with 1 onion, 1 tspn thyme and 1 chicken stock cube, salt & pepper to taste. When finished cooking there should be 1 pint of liquid in the pan. Mince the fowl and 1 raw onion. Put back into saucepan with the liquid and boil for 1 minute. Add 1/2 cup cream and boil for 1 minute. Keep in the refrigerator until used.

Source: contributed by T. Alm in Cookbook: St Joseph's School, Clare (Clare: St Joseph's School, 1991), p.16.