Saturday, February 28, 2015

Meat Loaf

500g lambs fry
1 cup soft breadcrumbs
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp lemon juice
500g pork or sausage mince
1 tsp salt
Pepper to taste
1 egg, beaten

Method: Cover the lambs fry with water and simmer for 5 minutes. Drain the liquid and reserve for use as stock. Put the lambs fry and onion through the blender. Add remaining ingredients except the bacon. Add 1/2 cup stock. Pack into a loaf tin. Top with the bacon. Bake in moderate oven for about 45 minutes.

Source: Recommended by G. Matthewman in The Wentworth Private Residential Care Cookbook (Aberfoyle Park [Adelaide], ?2008), p.29.

[onion and bacon are missing from the ingredient list]

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Banana Huckleberry

Place about four dobs of butter in a pyrex dish and slice six bananas over them. Then sprinkle three tablesp. dark brown sugar and cover the lot with crushed cornflakes. Cook for 1/2 hour at 350F. This serves four.

Source: Selected Recipes Compiled by Port Pirie Branch Royal District and Bush Nursing Society (Port Pirie: 1966), p.86.

Friday, February 20, 2015

Cheese Log

8 oz Philly cream cheese
1/2 jar Kraft cream cheese
8-12 oz grated matured cheese
chives chopped
garlic crushed
almonds
sesame seeds
caraway seeds
tabasco sauce
freshly ground black pepper

Method: Cream philly cheese, add kraft cream cheese, mix in flavourings, then grated mature cheese, form into 4 portions, roll in chopped almonds and seeds mixed together. Chill until firm.

Source: contributed by J. Edwards in Lutheran Jubilee 150 Cook Book 1838-1988 Vol 2 by St. Paul's Congregation, Yorketown (1988), p.9.

Monday, February 16, 2015

Seafood Pie

Crust -
2 cups cooked rice
2 teaspoons curry
1 onion, finely chopped
2 oz. melted butter
Combine all ingredients and press into a greased 9" pie plate.

Filling -
1 medium can Salmon or Tuna, drained and flaked
2 eggs
1&1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup grated cheese
Salt and pepper and squeeze lemon juice
1 Tablespoon chopped parsley

Thoroughly combine all ingredients for filling, and spoon in to prepared crust. Bake in moderate oven 325F 35-40 minutes until set. Garnish with lemon slices and olives.

Source: contributed by W. Mitchell in Trinity Gardens Primary School Recipe Book (Adelaide, n.d.), p.12.

Thursday, February 12, 2015

Invention Dessert

Stone big black cherries and soak in rum for at least 6 hours. Add whipped cream and crumbled meringues.

Source: Selected Recipes Compiled by Port Pirie Branch Royal District and Bush Nursing Society (Port Pirie: 1966), p.80.

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Tuna Cheddar Chowder

2 cups boiling water
salt
1 large diced potato
1/2 cup carrots and celery
1 small chopped onion
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
2 cups milk
3/4 lb. sharp cheddar cheese (shredded)
6&1/2 oz. Tuna
8 oz. sweetcorn (cream style)
pinch rosemary
pepper
chopped chives

Method: Cook vegetables in boiling salted water until tender. Add flaked tuna, sweetcorn, pepper and rosemary. Prepare cheese sauce using above ingredients and add to make chowder. Thicken by heating. Serve with chopped chives.

Source: contributed by Mrs. C. W. Marsh in Selected Recipes Compiled by Port Pirie Branch Royal District and Bush Nursing Society (Port Pirie: 1966), p.17.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

Lemon Drink from Pure Lemons

6 pts. of pure lemon juice
8 lb. sugar
1/2 oz. citric acid
1 gramme sodium benzoate
1/2 bottle Fauldings lemon essence

Method: Make up cold - dilute when using.

Source: contributed by Mrs. C. Bowley and Mrs. W. Kretschmer in Selected Recipes Compiled by Port Pirie Branch Royal District and Bush Nursing Society (Port Pirie: 1966), p.12
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