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Fruit Salad Dressing

July 18th 2010 07:07

: Made with

: mayonnaise

Fruit Salad Dressing

One of my previous posts mentioned a fruit salad dressing from the 1950s. After a number of readers (ok, maybe just two) mentioned that it would be itneresting to make this dressing I decided to give it a go.

The recipe is at Fruit Salad recipe dressing

After making it one Sunday afternoon for the family I am wondering if perhaps mayonnaise in the 50s was made differently.

Despite the sweetness of the orange juice and icing sugar (I added extra) the slight saltiness from the mayonnaise was more than my 8 and 5 year old could bear and even hubby, who ate half his serving, God love him, didn't see it as a winner.

I chopped up fruit from the bowl and mixed it in with the dressing and while I didn't mind the taste as I found it quite refreshing, the majority wins.

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Grandma's Pumpkin Scones

July 3rd 2010 07:36

: Just like

: grandma used to make

My version of grandma's pumpkin scones. A bit more practice needed.

We recently had a dinner party where our friends who are farmers, brought along a lovely big pumpkin.

You gotta love living in the country where fresh food is just a backyard away and when there is an abundance of a crop, just share it among your friends, family and neighbours.

So, after a week of eating pumpkin soup, mashed pumpkin and roast pumpkin, I decided to attempt pumpkin scones. (It was a HUGE pumpkin they gave us).

I don't have a great track record for scones and as any avid watcher of Masterchef will realise, they are not the simplest thing in the world to bake.

That aside, if we don't try things, how do we ever get good at it?
Following is my humble attempt.

Ingredients
60g butter
2 Tbs caster sugar
1/2C cooked, mashed pumpkin
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 egg
1/2 C milk
2 1/2 C SR flour, sifted.

Method
1. Cream butter and sugar well together, add pumpkin and nutmeg and mix well.
2. Add egg, then mix in milk gradually. Stir in sifted flour and mix to a soft dough.
3. Turn onto a floured board and knead lightly. Pat out to 2cm thickness. Cut into rounds with a floured scone cutter.
4. Place scones onto a greased baking tray very close together and glaze with milk.
5. Bake in a preheated hot oven at 210 deg celsius (410 deg F) for 15-20 minutes.
6. Slide onto a wire cooling rack to cool. Serve with butter.
Makes 12.

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Vintage Tips in the Kitchen

June 25th 2010 11:41

: Tips for

: the Kitchen

A1952 kitchen. Photo courtesy www.center44.com

In 1952 the Sunday Herald, a Sydney newspaper printed some interesting kitchen tips I thought I would share.

* Use powdered milk mixed with water in which vegetables have been boiled to make white sauce.

* Tainted saucepans can be cleansed by boiling a cut up lemon in them for one or two hours

* Use marmalade or finely chopped fresh orange peel instead of candied peel, in fruit cake.

Try this fruit salad dressing. Mix well 1/2 cup mayonnaise with 2 tablespoons orange juice, 2 tablespoons cream and 1 teaspoon icing sugar. Beat well and chill.

I love these little insights into the past. Often still valid today.

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Gingerbread for Winter

June 13th 2010 11:02

: Gingerbread

: the old fashioned way

Gingerbread as a warming treat in Winter

The wind is biting, the skies are dreary and thoughts turn to warm, filling foods.

My hubbie loves gingerbread and I must confess that I haven't made any for a long time, so after searching my old recipe books I came across the following recipe in my Carry On Cookery Book, a post-war cookbook

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Washing clothes with petrol

June 5th 2010 04:54

: Clothes washing

: with petrol

A still from the video from the California State Fire Marhsall warning against washing clothes in petrol

Trolling through some newspaper archives, as I do while searching out tidbits for my genealogy hobby or to find interesting articles for this blog, I came across a news article about a woman and her two sons who were badly burnt when she was washing her clothes with PETROL.

Apparently, she was near an open flame and a spark ignited the fumes in her kitchen setting her alight. When her sons came to her rescue they were burnt as well

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Shearers' Stew with Jumbuck Dumplings.

May 22nd 2010 05:46

: Shearers Stew

: with Jumbuck Dumplings

A stew worthy of a chilly Autumn evening.

The weather has turned colder which automatically turns our choices of dishes to cook towards heavier, stewier (is that a word), more warming meals.

My previous post was the book review so it made sense to actually make a dish from within its pages

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Vintage Book Review - Heritage Cookbook

May 18th 2010 03:13

: Book Review

: Heritage Cookbook

The Australian Family Circle Heritage Cookbook

It's not officially a vintage cookbook as the Australia Family Circle Heritage Cookbook was only published in 1988, to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary, but it does have a wonderful history of cooking (and eating) in Australia since white settlement.

I remember being given the book back in 1988 and cooking some of the recipes from it such as Creamy Mushroom Chicken and their Creme Caramel recipe

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Curried Sausages

April 22nd 2010 03:31

: Curried Sausages

: A yummy dish

Our curried sausages, they were yummo.

So one of the first ways I noticed that my grandmother was 'chatting' to me through her cookbook was by a clipping I found amongst the pages that she had cut out of a local newspaper.

It was for a recipe of curried sausages. The lady who had submitted it to the paper described it as a recipe that her grandmother used to make

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She spoke to me.

April 15th 2010 11:35

: Vintage

: Foodie

My grandmother as a young woman in the 1930s.

I've mentioned my grandmother before on this blog as she was the inspiration for me to start it up. After she died I ended up with all her old cookbooks.

My grandmother wasn't a classy cook as she only had a few 'signature' dishes that I remember. Her style was definitely vintage and her technique for never wasting food mirrored her experience of growing up through the Depression

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The History of the cookbook

March 19th 2010 00:38

My collection of vintage cookbooks

The cookbook is one of the most handy tools any cook can have.
Not only does it store recipes but it can be an insight into a culture that is foreign or long gone.
According to the website essortment.com the first known cookbooks were clay tablets from Babylon around 1500BC

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