Cuban Chicken

4 boneless chicken breasts
1 tablspn Oil
1 pkt Spring Veg soup mix
2 bananas, sliced
1 cup pineapple juice
1/2 cup water

Heat oil and brown chicken and bananas, set bananas aside. Add combined soup mix, pineapple juice and water to chicken. Stir until boiling. Cover and simmer gently for 15 mins, until cooked. Add bananas and reheat before serving with rice or vegetables.

Source: contributed by Jean Potter in Camden Primary Recipe Book. Compiled by Linda Mc Gee & Dianne Goldsworthy ([Adelaide], n.p., n.d. [late 1980s-early 1990s]), p.19.

Humble Stomach Soup

As you prepare meals, wash all sound scraps of vegetables (skin and tops of carrots, ribs and stems of green peppers, etc.), place in plastic bag, close with rubber band, and pop in freezer. Do the same with meat trimmings and bones. When both bags are full, boil up a saucepan of water, add a teaspoon of salt and one of vinegar, put in meat scraps and bones, boil rapidly for 20 minutes, remove from heat, and allow to cool. Reheat, strain, cool, remove fat, bring back to boil, add vegetable scraps, and simmer for 30 minutes. Strain. You now have the base of any one of the "Humble Stomach" soups my family enjoy, and it really hasn't cost you anything. Don't forget to add scraps of left-over salads to the vegetable bag - lettuce in particular gives a lift to soup flavour.

Source: contributed by Mrs. A. V. Eszenyi, Clarence Park, S.A. in Cook-Along with the Autistic Children's Association of South Australia Inc. (Adelaide: Allied Publishing Co., n.d. [1971-1972]), p.5.

Mincemeat Puftaloons

4 tbspn SR flour, 1/2 cup warm water, 1/4 tspn salt, 1 egg, 1 cup minced cooked meat, 1 small onion chopped, parsley.

Method: Sift flour and salt, mix in beaten egg yolk and warm water. Fold in stiff egg white, add meat, onion and parsley. Drop in hot fat and cook 3-5 mins. Serve with hot veges.

Source: Centenary Cook Book 1878-1978 by St. Paul's Lutheran Women, Yorketown (Yorketown, [1978]), p.7 ['Potpourri' insert].

Curried Peas

1 can peas
1/2 pint milk
butter
salt & pepper
1 finely chopped onion
1 Dspn cornflour
1 Dspn curry powder

Method: Saute onion in butter until tender, add curray [sic] powder, pepper & salt. Stir until blended. Mix cornflour to a smooth paste with a little of the milk. Add remainder of milk to onion mixture, heat to near boiling, thicken with cornflour paste. Drain peas & stir into curry sauce, serve with steak, chops or over buttered toast as a snack.

Source: contributed by Dawn Ellis in The Northern Automotive Restoration Club S. A. Inc. 10th Anniversary Cookbook . Compiled & typed by Lynne Newbold (Clare: Northern Argus, 1984) [Number 0408] - "dedicated to N.A.R.C. from it's [sic] feminine members"; p.12-3.

Cauliflower Custard Savoury

cooked cauliflower
1 egg
1 cup milk
pepper & salt

Method: Beat egg, add milk, pepper & salt, pour onto cooked cauliflower in greased casserole, bake in oven until custard sets.

Source: contributed by Dawn Ellis in The Northern Automotive Restoration Club S. A. Inc. 10th Anniversary Cookbook. Compiled & typed by Lynne Newbold (Clare: Northern Argus, 1984) [Number 0408] - "dedicated to N.A.R.C. from it's [sic] feminine members"; p. 11.

Brussel Sprouts

• Add 1/2 cup of table grapes to 1 lb. cooked sprouts.

• Add 1 cup sauteed, sliced mushrooms to cooked brussel sprouts.

• Cook 1 cup diced celery for 2 minutes in 2 tablespoons butter. Stir in 2 tablespoons wholemeal flour. Add 1 cup milk slowly. Stir to blend and bring to boiling point and add the cooked sprouts and season to taste.

• Cook brussel sprouts and drain. Then add 1 tablespoon melted butter. Put in ovenproof dish. Sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Bake at 175°C (350°F) until crumbs are brown.

Source: Better Health High Fibre Cookbook compiled by the Strathalbyn Kindergarten Committee (Hahndorf, S.A.: Fox Publishing, 1978), p.46-7.

Lamb Tropic Style

Pineapple Pieces; Green Pepper; 1 Cup Celery; Large Onion; 2 Tablespoons Butter; Lamb or Mutton; 1 Dessertspoon Cornflour; 1 Tablespoon Soy Sauce; 1 Tablespoon Vinegar; Salt, Pepper and Pineapple Juice.

Method: Fry pineapple, onion, celery, green pepper in butter until tender. Remove from pan, add cubed meat, mix cornflour with a little pineapple juice, add rest of juice, sauce, and vinegar. Add to meat. Cook until meat is tender and add vegetable, pineapple, salt and pepper.

Source: contributed by Mrs. J. C. Crane in The Best of Everything. Compiled by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Naracoorte Hospital (Naracoorte, 1970), p. 37.

Spicy Pears

1 large can pear halves (peaches can also be used)
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1 tb curry powder

Method: Drain fruit, reserve juice. Place fruit in casserole dish cut side down. Melt butter in frying pan, add brown sugar and curry powder, stir until blended. Add some of the reserved juice and heat until dissolves a little. Pour over fruit. Bake in 180C oven for 20 minutes. Serve hot with cream or icecream or may be used as a vegetable dish.

Source: contributed by Susan MacDonald in A Taste of Zonta Flavoured with Celebrities. Zonta Club of Adelaide Flinders Inc. District 23, Area 2 (n.p. [?Adelaide], 2003), p.67.

Cheese & Vegetable Bake

For each person use:-
60g. cottage cheese
1 egg
80g. grated matured cheese
cooked vegetables of your choice

Method: Mix cottage cheese and egg. Grated cheese can either be mixed in too or sprinkled on top. Butter a ramekin or oven dish. Place cooked vegetables in dish. Pour cheese and egg mixture over. Bake in mod. oven 20-25 minutes.

Source: contributed by Vicki McLean in Angaston Kindergarten Jubilee Cookery Book 1955-1985. 1986 edition (Angaston, 1986), p.17.

Quick Curried Chicken

425g tin apricots
2 onions, sliced
1kg diced chicken breasts
2 tablespoons curry powder
2 tablespoons cornflour
Extra water

Method: Drain and finely chop or process apricots, reserving juice. Cover a baking dish with foil and place chicken, onions and apricots in. Mix curry powder and cornflour together with apricot juice and extra water. Pour over chicken mixture and bake for 60-90 minutes at 180°C or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.

Hint: vegetables of choice can be added to this dish. Serve with mashed potatoes and peas; salad, pasta or rice. Suitable to freeze.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Community Children's Centre (RAHCCC) Cookbook, 2nd edition (Adelaide, 2008), p.75.

A Good Roast Dinner for Beginners

Choose either a leg of lamb, a loin or forequarter.

If using forequarter slice between ribs and shoulder and cut it off. If left intact it takes longer to cook and is difficult to carve.

A leg needs at least three hours, the others two hours.

Using a frypan put in at least 1&1/2 cups of dripping.

Add 1/2 cup cold water.

Lay meat on top and sprinkle with salt and pepper and a little flour.

Cover and cook at 350F turning after three-quarters of an hour.

Vegetables can either be put in with the meat three-quarters of an hour before serving or at this stage take meat out and put in warm oven. Tip fat out and make gravy.

To make gravy:

After fat has been tipped off sprinkle pan with flour (1 tabspn)[,] turn heat high for a few minutes then add 1/2 to 1 cup cold water and stir well. Let boil a minute.

Pour off into gravy boat and keep hot.

Put the clear fat back into pan and heat. Cut potatoes into slices three-quarters inch thick and lay in hot fat. Turn when brown underneath. Do the same with pumpkin, par[s]nips and carrots.

They will cook in about 30 minutes.

Source: contributed by Vera Jagger in The Embroiderers' Recipe Book. Compiled by members of The Embroiderers' Guild of South Australia Incorporated ([Adelaide], n.d.), p.32.

Chicken Noodle Savoury

1 pkt. chicken noodle soup, 1 lb. minced steak, 1 medium onion chopped, 3/4 cup uncooked rice, 1 pt. water, salt and pepper to taste, 2 dsps. tomato sauce (optional), 2 dsps. Worcestershire sauce (optional).

Method: Combined all ingredients in a casserole dish. Cover and cook in a moderate oven for 1 hr. Serve with vegetables or hot toast.

Source: contributed by Mrs J. H. Kelly in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.5.

Meat and Vege Puffs

cold cooked meat, diced

any left over vegetables

oil

Batter:

2 cups S.R. flour

Pinch salt

milk

1 egg

Method: Place flour, salt and egg in bowl. Mix well, slowly adding a little milk at a time until batter is smooth. Add diced meat and veg (meat and vegetables can be tinned) to batter. Spoon mixture into hot oil. Fry till golden brown. Serve with tomato and onion fried in margarine.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.84. [Bachelor]

Pork Chops in Pineapple

As many pork chops as required.

Method: Fry both sides of the pork chops for 5 minutes each and brown thoroughly. Lay the chops in a casserole dish, then brown in frying pan as many slices of pineapple as there are chops and place one on each chop. Pour over the following mixture.

1 tin pineapple juice, 1 bay leaf, 1 finely chopped celery stick in season, 2 cloves, 1 chopped onion, 1 garlic clove (this is optional). Bake in a moderate oven for 1&1/2 hours covering casserole with a lid. Serve with vegetables in season.

Source: Mantle of Safety Cookbook 2 (The Port Augusta Women's Air Branch Auxillary of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, c1987), p.100.

Meat Loaf Roast

500 gm mince
500 gm sausage meat
1 egg
1 pkt. Dutch Curry Soup
1 cup breadcrumbs

Method: Combine all ingredients[,] form into a roll - place in baking dish with a little dripping and vegetables around it and cook about 1&1/2 hours in mod-hot oven. What is left is really good cold in a sandwich.

Source: contributed by Dulcie Stacey in Our Jubilee Year Recipe Book [Ascot Park Uniting Church Friendship Group] (Adelaide, 1986), p.37.