Scramble Pudding

1/2 lb. Flour

1/2 lb. Bread crumbs

1/2 lb. Suet

1/2 lb. Raspberry Jam

Mix all well together with a little milk; boil 2 hours.

Source: A Small Collection of Plain Cookery Recipes, for Household Use. Compiled by Annie Bishop, Demonstrator for S.A. Gas Coy. (Adelaide: J. H. Sherring & Co., Leigh Street, 1911), p.27

The Savoury Balls

1/2 lb self-raising flour

1 teaspoon chopped parsley

1/4 teaspoon salt and pepper

2 to 3 oz. finely chopped suet

A pinch thyme and sage

Water to mix

Method: Mix all the dry ingredients and make into a light dough with cold water. Divide into small balls, roll each in flour, and drop into the boiling stew. The same balls may be cooked with a boiled leg or shoulder of mutton. For a change, add a small minced onion to the above ingredients.

Source: The Possum Cookery Book in Aid of Miss Minda - Telethon (Brighton: Minda Home Auxiliary, n.d. [1960s - post 1963]), p.31.

War-time Plum Pudding

Half oz. flour, 6 ozs raisins, 6 ozs currants, 4 ozs suet, 4 ozs brown sugar, 4 ozs mashed carrot, 4 ozs mashed potatoes, 1 tablespoon treacle, 1 oz. lemon peel, 1 oz. citron peel. Boil as usual for a pudding of this size.

Source: contributed by Mrs. J. S. Pearce, Kapunda in The Barossa Cookery Book: 1000 Selected Recipes from a District Celebrated Throughout Australia for the Excellence of its Cookery. Every Recipe of Proved Merit and Signed as such by the Donors (33rd edition, 2006), p.42.

Welsh Faggots

1&1/4 lbs pigs liver

4 oz white bread crumbs

3 teaspoons salt

1 pint boiling water

2 large onions

3 ozs suet

2 teaspoons dried sage

Method: Mince liver and suet and onion. Add crumbs, salt, pepper and sage. Place tablespoons of mixture in greased roasting dish. About 15 faggots and cook in oven 355F for 35 minutes. Pour boiling water round faggots and allow gravy to form. Serve hot with choice of vegetables.

Source: contributed by N. E. Halford in Royal Adelaide Hospital Cookery Book: Our Favourite Recipes (Adelaide: 1981, 1st edition), p.60.