Tuna Casserole

2 cups cooked rice, 1 cup cream or top of milk, 1/4 lb. cheese, 1 tin tuna.

Method: Beat cheese and milk together, pour over rice and add tuna. Mix well, place in casserole, top with bread crumbs, dobs of butter, put in oven 20 minutes or until brown.

Source: contributed by Mrs A. T. Johns in Urania Methodist Guild Cookery Book. Book II. (Kadina: Kadina & Wallaroo Times, 1965), p.5.

Chicken Mornay

Put 1 tbsp. of margarine in saucepan, melt slowly, add 1 slice bacon finely cut and cook in butter for 1 minute. Add 1&1/2 pts. milk, 1 cup chicken or vegetable stock, 1 onion grated, 1 medium carrot grated, 2 cups cooked potato or 2 medium sized potatoes grated. Cook these vegetables in milk and bacon and stock until vegs. are tender. Add 1 cup grated cheese, little tomato sauce and Worcestershire sauce, 1 cup rice can be added if desired. Chop finely well boiled or steamed chicken or fowl and add above mixture and thicken with plain flour - about 1/2 cup and salt to taste. If fowl is large, a little can be used to make chicken jelly for sandwiches.

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

Rice Bubble Sundae

1&1/2 cups rice bubbles, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 1/4 cup butter (melted), 1 cup flaked coconut, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, ice cream topping, 2 trays vanilla ice cream.

Method: Lightly mix rice bubbles, sugar, butter, coconut and walnuts. Put half mixture into greased 8 x 8 inch tin. Spread evenly with slightly softened ice cream. Sprinkle with remaining rice bubble mixture. Press down lightly. Cover and freeze until firm. Cut into squares and serve with topping syrup.

Source: contributed by Mrs M. P. Wakefield in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.45.

Jellied Salmon

1 pkt. lemon jelly crystals, 1 tbsp. gelatine, 3 tbsp. water, 1/4 tsp. salt, 1 lb tin salmon, 1/4 cup green capsicum strips, celery curls, 1&1/2 cups boiling water, 3 dsps. lemon juice, 3 dsps. vinegar, 1 cup cooked peas, 3/4 cup diced celery, 1/4 cup thinly sliced unpeeled cucumber.

Method: Make up jelly in usual way, form into large mould, rinsed with cold water, put in refrigerator to set. Soften gelatine in cold water, dissolve in boiling water, add vinegar and lemon juice, salt. Chill until partially set, add salmon, drained and broken, add veg., mix carefully, pour over set jelly and chill. Serve with tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, lettuce, cucumber and mayonnaise.

Source: contributed by Mrs. E. Davies in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.11.

Pineapple Rock Cakes

4 oz. flour, 2 oz. ground rice, 2&1/2 oz. butter or margarine, 2&1/2 oz. castor sugar, 1 level tsp. baking powder, 1 oz. roughly chopped glace pineapple, pinch salt, 1 egg, a little milk if necessary, sprinkling castor sugar.

Method: Sift flour with salt and baking powder. Rub butter into dry ingredients. Mix in sugar, rice and pineapple. Beat egg slightly then add to mixture, adding a little milk if it does not hold together. Put mixture in spoonfuls on greased slide, sprinkling a little castor sugar on each. Bake in hot oven. Makes about 12 cakes.

Source: contributed by Mrs C. Ebsary in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.53.

Austerity Date Cake

1 tbspn. butter, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 dsp. golden syrup, 1 cup water or milk, 1 egg, 1&1/2 cups flour, 1 tsp. soda, 1 cup dates.

Method: Put butter, dates, water or milk, golden syrup, in saucepan and warm, add soda, egg, sugar, flour. Bake 3/4 hour in moderate oven.

Source: contributed by Mrs. M. Smart in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.55.

Oven Cooked Hamburgers

1&1/2 lb minced steak, 1 cup soft bread crumbs, 1 tbsp. chopped parsley, 1 skinned tomato chopped, 1 dsp. tomato sauce, 1 tbsp. fruit chutney, 1 onion, 1 egg, salt and pepper, 1 dsp. gravy powder, 1 cup water or stock, 2 large bananas.

Method: Combine steak, bread crumbs, parsley, tomato sauce with chutney, finely chopped onion and beaten egg, season with salt and pepper. Mould a spoonful at a time into hamburger shapes, place in a greased casserole, blend gravy powder with stock or water, pour over the burgers, cover and bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour. Arrange bananas, slices cut lengthwise, on 'burgers, cover with bacon, bake 15 mins. These are very good.

Source: contributed by Mrs. G. Kelly in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.13.

Savoury T. V. Snack

Thin slices of bread for sandwich. Spread bread with very little butter and place on slices of cheese to make sandwich, salt and pepper. Beat two or more eggs with two tbsp. milk. Cut sandwich in half, cover with egg and fry. Cover fry-pan with little butter or margarine. Cook few minutes, garnish with bacon.

Source: contributed by Cherie Greenslade in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.7.

Mushroom Mornay

2 oz. butter, 2 oz. bacon, 1 medium sized onion, 2 tbsp. plain flour, 1/2 pt. milk, 1 tin mushrooms (8 oz.).

Method: Fry (but do not brown) onions, bacon and butter. Make a white sauce with milk and flour. Combine above mixtures with mushrooms. If a topping is desired, add grated cheese (Coon for preference), fresh bread crumbs and dobs of margarine or butter and brown under grill. Mushroom mornay is better tasting if made day before required and reheated.

Source: contributed by Ebsary in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p. 5.

Golden Corn Mornay

1 lb minced steak, 1 finely chopped onion, 1/2 cup water, 1 can sweet corn (drained), 1 tsp. curry powder, 1/2 cup grated cheese, 1 tbsp. fat, 1/2 cup tomato puree, salt and pepper, 1/2 cup sultanas, 1 lb mashed potatoes, 1 tbsp. plain flour.

Method: Saute onion in fat, add meat, cook until lightly browned all over. Add tomato puree, water, salt and pepper. Simmer covered for 10 minutes. Fold in sweet corn, sultanas and curry powder and continue cooking until tender. Thicken with flour. Fill into casserole, top with potato, sprinkle with cheese and brown in oven.

Source: contributed by Mrs. M. P. Wakefield in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p. 5.

Sunbeam Tuna Mornay

1 tbsp. finely chopped bacon, 1 tbsp. finely chopped onion, 2 oz. butter or margarine, 2 tbsp. plain flour, 1&1/4 pts. milk, 1 tin shredded tuna, 2 tsp. grated cheese, 1-2 tbsp. white wine.

Method: Fry finely chopped bacon and onion in tsp. butter or margarine for 3 mins. at 320 degrees. Add 2 oz. butter or margarine and melt. Reduce heat to 220-240 degrees. Add plain flour. Stir through and gradually add 1&1/4 pts. milk. Blend free from lumps. Add tin of shredded tuna, grated cheese. Season to taste. Turn up to 320 degrees to thicken. Just before serving add 1-2 tbsp. white wine. It is very nice without the wine.

Source: contributed by Ebsary in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.7.

Beef in Loaf

1 Vienna bread loaf, 1&1/2 lb mince, 2 onions, 2 tomatoes, 1/2 tsp. mixed herbs, bread crumbs from loaf, 4 Maggi beef broth cubes, 1 tbsp. chopped parsley, 1 egg.

Method: Cut off slice along top of loaf, scoop out soft bread to make a shell of crust. Fry mince and onions until brown and drain off excess fat. Add sliced tomatoes and crumbled beef cubes and 1/2 cup water. Simmer 20 minutes or until tender. Remove from heat, stir in bread, parsley and egg. Spoon into hollowed loaf. Wrap in foil and bake in moderate oven 15 to 20 minutes. Replace top (optional).

Source: contributed by Mrs. L. Stock in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.9.

Don Bradman Steak

2 tbsps. sugar, 2 tbsps. tomato sauce, 2 tbsps. vinegar, 1 dsp. Worcestershire sauce, 1 dsp. dark jam.

Method: Place in bottom of grilling pan 1 lb rump steak. Soak 2 hours turning several times. Grill, leaving mixture in pan. Serve juice as gravy.

Source: contributed by S. Kelly in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.11.

Delicious Curry

1 apple, 1 onion, 1 heaped dsp. flour, 1 dsp. curry (Lion), 1 tsp. sugar and salt to taste, 1 dsp. chutney, 10 chopped sultanas, 1 tsp. lemon juice, 1 tbsp. fat, 1 pint stock.

Method: Boil lamb chops or steak, save the stock. Melt fat, when hot add chopped onions and apple, fry until brown, add curry and flour, add all other ingredients, stirring all the while. Add stock last. Add meat and cook for 2 hours on a very slow heat. Diced carrots may be added with the meat and 1 hour before serving place in a potato for each of the family. Serve with well drained rice.

Source: contributed by E. M. Mumford in Urania Methodist Guild Jubilee Cookery Book (Kadina/Moonta: The South Australian Farmer Print, 1963), p.11.

Two Pudding

2 ozs. butter

2 ozs. flour

2 ozs. sugar

2 eggs

2 cups of milk

Method: Cream butter and sugar, add beaten eggs and flour, mix well and add milk. Stir well, and bake in a buttered dish till set. Serve hot with sauce.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.70.

Fish Balls - Norway

1/2 lb. Schnapper or Butterfish

Pepper and salt

1/2 teacupful cream

Grated nutmeg

Method: Bone fish and pound in mortar until fine. Boil the fish head and bones and keep extract; season with pepper and grated nutmeg; add a small piece of butter about the size of a walnut. Boil cream and let it cool, then pour it among fish and flavouring. Make the balls and cook in extract or boiling fat. Serve with white sauce coloured pink.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.30

White Vegetable Soup

1 pint of stock

1 pint of milk

1 table-spoon of flour

1/2 carrot

1/2 turnip

1/2 a leak [sic] or a small onion

Butter

Grated cheese

Method: Mince or dice the vegetables, simmer in the stock. When the vegetables are tender, add the milk, in which the flour has been mixed smoothly. Stir till it thickens. Just before serving add butter, chopped parsley, and a little grated cheese.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.16.

Cheese Balls

2 ozs. cheese (grated)

1 oz. flour
1 egg
Salt, pepper, cayenne
Frying fat

Method: Mix the cheese, flour, and yolk of egg, and cayenne to taste.

Whip the white of egg to a stiff froth, and stir it lightly into the other ingredients. Have ready a deep pan of hot fat, drop the mixture in in teaspoonfuls, and fry a golden brown. Drain well, and serve piping hot. These are delicious.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.27.

Mushrooms and Bacon

3 slices bacon

2 mushrooms for each slice

Method: Prepare mushrooms. Melt in pan piece of butter size of an egg. Put in mushrooms, sprinkle with pepper and salt, and cook till you prepare bacon. On each piece of bacon lay mushrooms; serve hot.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.29.

Sherried Salmon Puff

6 slices bread and butter

1 cup cooked, flaked, or canned salmon

1/2 cup sherry

1 & 1/2 cups grated cheese

2 eggs

1 cup milk

2 teaspoons Worcestershire Sauce

Method: Cube bread and butter. Slightly beat eggs. Arrange alternate layers of bread cubes, cheese, and salmon in greased baking dish, ending with a layer of bread cubes on top. Mix remaining ingredients and pour over contents in baking dish. Add salt and pepper to taste. Bake in a slow oven (325 deg. F.) for one hour. Serves four.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.31.

Sausage Balls with Apple Rings - England

1 lb. sausage-meat

A little flour

1 lb. cooking apples

A little milk

Fat for frying

Fried bread

Method: Form the sausage-meat into balls and lightly roll in flour. Wipe the apples and core them. Cut into rings about 1/4 in. thick, the same number of rings as sausage balls. Dip in milk and then in flour, and fry with the sausage balls. Serve on fried bread, with each sausage ball sitting on an apple ring.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.22.

Divinity Fudge

2 cups white sugar

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup golden syrup

2 whites of egg

Vanilla

Pinch of salt

1/2 cup mixed nuts

Ginger and cherries if desired

Method: Boil sugar, water, and syrup until a little dropped in water becomes crisp. If using a thermometer boil to 295 deg. While sugar is boiling beat white of eggs to a stiff froth with pinch of salt. When boiling sugar is ready pour very gradually on to the beaten egg whites and beat until creamy (about 10 minutes). Add nuts, etc., before it gets quite stiff. Spread on to buttered board and cut into squares when cool.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.67.