Apricot Clams

2 eggs
4 cups sugar
6 ozs butter
4 ozs cornflour
3/4 lb S. R. flour
About 4&1/2 doz. dried apricot halves

Method: Soak apricots for 4 hours - cream butter and sugar, add well beaten eggs then add sifted flours. Mix well and then roll out as for biscuits. Cut into rounds, place a piece of apricot sprinkled with sugar on each round and cover with another round of the biscuit mixture. Press edges down and cook in a hot oven for 10 mins. Can be iced if preferred and sprinkled with coconut.

Source: More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), p.30.

Honey Soy Chicken Wings

Discard wingtips. Allow 3-4 wings per person.

18 chicken wings
1/4 cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons dry sherry
2 tablespoons honey
1 garlic clove crushed
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon finely grated fresh ginger [ginger root may be kept well in sherry]
1 teaspoon 5 spice powder [from Chinese shops]
2 tablespoons peanut oil
2 tablespoons sesame oil

Method: Joint wings. Marinade in all ingredients, turning wings once or twice. Roast in single layer in moderate oven 30 minutes or until golden brown. Turn wings and serve when tender and golden brown.

Source: Honey Recipes from the Clare Valley. Compiled by Margaret George, 'Skillogalee', Sevenhill, South Australia (Clare: Tilbrook Brothers 'Northern Argus', 1984), n.p.

Fresh Pineapple Dessert

Peel and slice fresh pineapple [centre removed]. Mix the following well:
    Honey
    Chopped nuts
    Cottage cheese
Put into centre of rounds of pineapple and sprinkle with nuts.

Source: Honey Recipes from the Clare Valley. Compiled by Margaret George, 'Skillogalee', Sevenhill, South Australia (Clare: Tilbrook Brothers 'Northern Argus', 1984), n.p.

Mum's Oyster Mornay

12-18 oysters
1 pkt chicken noodle soup
1 chopped onion
1 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
3 tbsp grated cheese
1&1/2-2 cups milk
1/2 tsp lemon pepper
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp chopped mint

Method: Melt butter and cook onion. Add chicken noodle soup and cook a few minutes. Mix in flour, 1 tbsp at a time and then add milk gradually. Stir in cheese, juice, pepper and oysters. Cook until thickened. Serve garnished with mint. Can also be served in vol-au-vent cases.

Variation:
1. Omit chicken noodle soup and add 10 drops Tabasco, pinch basil, celery salt, 1 tspn dry mustard, 2 tbsp cream and 1 cup cooked chopped carrot.

Source: Contributed by Norma Whitmarsh (Ceduna) in Sue Trewartha & Angie Bayly (compilers), The World's Your Oyster: A collection of oyster recipes and helpful hints (Ceduna: 1993), p.89.

Anzac Biscuits

One cup sugar, 1 cup cocoanut chips, 1 cup rolled oats, 1 cup S.R. flour. Put 2 tablespoons water, 1 tablespoon golden syrup, and 2 ozs butter in a saucepan and bring to boil. Then add 1/2 teaspoon baking soda. Pour over the dry ingredients while hot (care must be taken that it doesn't boil over), put teaspoonful of the mixture on greased slides and bake in slow oven 20 to 30 minutes.

Source: contributed by A. Heidenreich 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.54.

Apricot Dream Balls

200g dried fruit medley
100g dried apricots
1 tablespoon coconut milk
1/4 cup desiccated coconut

Method: Food-process fruit medley, apricots, and coconut milk until mixture comes together. Shape mixture into tablespoon-sized balls and roll in coconut. Chill until firm. We enjoy this snack when we visit the train museum at Port Adelaide!

Source: contributed by Lachlan, Sue & David in Royal Adelaide Hospital Community Children's Centre (RAHCCC) Cookbook, 2nd edition (Adelaide, 2008), p.206.

Toasted Chicken Fingers

1 cup cooked, diced chicken
1/2 cup diced celery
1/2 an onion, grated
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons diced capsicum
1/2 cup mayonnaise
Wholemeal bread
Grated cheese

Method: Combine all ingredients except bread and cheese. Spread mixture on slices of buttered bread. Place on oven tray and bake for 30 mins at 180C. Slice into fingers.

Hint: Not suitable to freeze.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Community Children's Centre (RAHCCC) Cookbook, 2nd edition (Adelaide, 2008), p.200.

Salmon Soup

1 onion, finely chopped
1&1/2 teaspoons curry powder
15g butter
2 x 440g cans pea and ham soup
3 cups water
180g salmon in brine
2/3 cup thickened cream

Method: Sauté onion and curry powder in butter, add soup and water, stir until mixture reaches boiling, stir in drained salmon, serve with a spoonful of whipped cream in each bowl.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Community Children's Centre (RAHCCC) Cookbook, 2nd edition (Adelaide, 2008), p.14.

Date Balls

125g butter
1 cup brown sugar
500g dates
1 cup coconut
4 cups Rice Bubbles
Extra coconut for coating

Method: Boil butter, sugar and chopped dates for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in coconut and Rice Bubbles. When cool, roll into balls and coat in extra coconut. Store in refrigerator.

Source: Royal Adelaide Hospital Community Children's Centre (RAHCCC) Cookbook, 2nd edition (Adelaide, 2008), p.213.

Mince Meat Mornay

1 lb minced meat, 1 chopped onion, 3/4 cup uncooked rice, 1 tin tomato soup, 1 tspn curry powder.

Method: Cook rice in saucepan with water. Drain. Fry meat & onion until cooked. Add 1 tspn curry powder & rice, & combined well. Add 1 tin tomato soup.

Source: Well Tried Barossa Recipes (Tanunda: St John's Lutheran Ladies Guild; reprint 2000 of 2nd edition 1975 [1st edn 1974]), p.11.

A Tasty Dinner

This combination makes a very tasty dinner. Boiled pickled pork, dumplings and stewed quinces thickened with a little cornflour. Dumplings: S.R. flour and water the consistency of scones. These may be boiled with the pork for 10 minutes.

Source: contributed by Mrs Vic Kappler 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.13.

Devil Egg Puffs

Chop finely two hard-boiled eggs, melt a tablespoonful of butter, add a tablespoonful of anchovy paste, little pepper, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Mix well together; make an ordinary scone dough (not sweet), and divide into two; roll out fairly thin, spread the mixture on one piece and cover with the other piece. Cut into scones, sprinkle with grated cheese; bake in a moderate oven.

Source: contributed by Miss E. Basedow, Kent Town 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.18.

Broken Glass Pudding

Make up 3 different coloured jellies adding 1 cup only of boiling water and set in 3 different dishes (make day before). Line a 4 x 11" loaf tin with foil. Crumble together 1 cup Wafer biscuits, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 cup melted butter. Put 1/2 this in bottom of tin. Mix 1 envelope of gel[a]tine with 1/4 cup cold water. Heat 1 cup pineapple juice and add to above. Whip 1 cup cream with 1/4 cup icing sugar and 1/2 teaspoon vanilla. When pineapple mixture is quite cold add cream. Cut jellies into small cubes and add to cream etc. [P]our into tin and cover with remaining crumbs. Set in fridge and serve in slices (1 envelope = 1 rounded tablespoon).

Source: More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), p.37.

Cherry Brandy [& Advocatt nos. 1 & 2]

Cherry Brandy

Dissolve and cool:
1&1/2 cups sugar
1 cup boiling water
Then add:

1&1/2 cups brandy
2 teaspoons almond essence
1 good teaspoon cochineal

(Mix with advocatt [sic] and dry ginger for a delicious drink)

Advocatt - Recipe No. 1

12 eggs
1 cup cold boiled milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon malt extract
1 bottle sherry
1 small bottle brandy
1 tin condensed milk

Method: Beat eggs, milk, vanilla and malt together. Add slowly sherry and brandy. Shake well and bottle.

Advocatt - Recipe no. 2

8 eggs
3 oz (85 ml) vanilla ess.
1 tin condensed milk
1/2 bottle brandy

Method: Empty into large bowl the milk, break in the yolks of eggs and add vanilla and brandy and mix well. Whip egg whites (but not stiff), mix both together beating well. Bottle.

Source: More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), pp.54-5.

Steamed Nut Loaf

Put in saucepan --
2 cups milk
3 tablespoons Golden Syrup (heaped)
2 tablespoons butter

Warm and melt. Take from stove and add 1 level teaspoon carb. soda. Let cool, then add 3 good cups S.R. flour, 2 cups fruit.

Put into greased soup tins (1/2 fill). Cover with Alfoil. Secure with rubber band. Steam for 1&1/2 hours. Can be served hot with custard as a pudding.

Source: More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), p.14.

Beach Boy Lunch

For each serving you'll need 2 tablespoons sweet and sour sauce, 1 tablespoon butter, 1 thick slice of cooked ham or canned luncheon meat.

Method: Melt butter in a frypan and lightly brown the slice of meat. Spread with the sweet and sour sauce and add some pineapple pieces when bubbling hot. Serve with hot fluffy rice and a green vegetable.

Source: 'Meals for One' in More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), p.68. ["At the suggestion of Rex Brady these easy recipes are for husbands who occassionally [sic] have to cook the lunch when their wives are busy."]

Poor Man's Fillet Mignon

1 lb. mince
1/2 lb. sausage meat
2 cups white bread crumbs
2 eggs
Mixed herbs - 1 teaspoon
1 dessertspoon Soy Sauce
1 large onion grated
1 tablespoon fresh chopped parsley
1/4 teaspoon each of Tarragon, Oragano [sic], onion salt, and Garlic salt
For a change I sometimes add some crushed pineapple

Method: Combine all ingredients as for hamburgers. Rolling in flour, make patties about 3" wide and 1" thick, then wrap around with a piece of bacon and secure with tooth picks. Cooking in a frypan. Heat a little oil and sear both sides of patty to seal in juices and then reduce heat. Don't forget to keep turning them so they don't burn and they'll take approx. 1/2 hour to cook. 5 minutes before serving heat a large tin of mushrooms in butter sauce. To serve, remove toothpicks, place on dinner plates and cover with mushrooms. I usually serve with hot veges, but they are just as nice with salads.

Source: contributed by Joy in More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), p.7.

Carrot Marmalade

6 large carrots
8 lemons
8 lb sugar
10 pints boiling water

Method: Grate carrots and slice lemons finely. Pour boiling water over ingredients (carrots and lemons) and let stand overnight. Next day boil for 1 hour, then add sugar and boil till it jells.

Source: More Favourite Recipes from our Quartermaster Marj Dennes in aid of Blue Lake Ladies Pipe Band (Mount Gambier, S.A.: 1981), p.42.

Fabulous Fruit Salad

1 tin pears (drained)
2 peaches (or equivalent in sliced, tinned)
2 bananas
1 mango

Method: Slice all fruits rather larger than is usual. Pour over 1/2 cup orange juice (tinned or fresh) and a couple of tablespoons of sherry if liked. Sweeten with liquid sucaryl or 1/2 cup sugar according to dietary requirements. Serve with ice-cream, cream or custard -- or alone.

Source: contributed by Mrs. Gough Whitlam in Cooking for Two. Compiled by Women's Auxiliary of the S.A. Council on the Ageing for Adelaide's Second Senior Citizens' Week, April, 1969 (Adelaide [Allied Publishing Company), 1969), p.53 ['Personality Pages']

Individual Seafood Salad

Drain a 3&1/2 oz. can Greenseas solid pack Tuna. Fill a crisp lettuce cup with the Tuna and top with a spoonful of salad dressing. Garnish with a few wedges of tomato and lemon. Serve with fingers of buttered brown or white bread. Serves one.

Source: Cooking for Two. Compiled by Women's Auxiliary of the S.A. Council on the Ageing for Adelaide's Second Senior Citizens' Week, April, 1969 (Adelaide [Allied Publishing Company), 1969), p.33.

Mystery Loaf

1 tablespoon butter
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup milk
1 dessertspoon golden syrup
1 cup mixed fruit and nuts

Method: Bring butter, sugar, milk, syrup and fruit to boil, then add 1 teaspoon carb. soda, while fizzing add 1 cup S.R. flour. Stir well and place in loaf tin. Bake 1/2 to 3/4 hour.

Source: contributed by Mrs. R. T. Wright, Naracoorte S.C.C. in Cooking for Two. Compiled by Women's Auxiliary of the S.A. Council on the Ageing for Adelaide's Second Senior Citizens' Week, April, 1969 (Adelaide [Allied Publishing Company), 1969), p.47.

Chicken and Asparagus

Prepare 1 pkt. Continental brand Chicken Noodle Soup with only 3&1/2 cups water. Empty in contents small can asparagus cuts, 1/2 cup frozen peas and cook 5 minutes.

Source: Cooking for Two. Compiled by Women's Auxiliary of the S.A. Council on the Ageing for Adelaide's Second Senior Citizens' Week, April, 1969 (Adelaide [Allied Publishing Company), 1969), p.22. ['Quick Meals from Packets or Tins (Not so economical -- but hasty and tasty!)]