You either love it or hate it. My father hated it as he had it once too often as a child, but Mum still made it for us. Served up with cream it’s a great winter dessert. Needless to say this is not Mum’s original recipe, but the addition of dried fruit would make it extra tasty.
By the yellowing of this newspaper clipping Mum cut it out of the Herald Sun quite a long while ago, but meatloaves never go out of fashion. The article talks about how good cold a meatloaf is and how good it is for picnics and sandwiches, but hot meatloaf with roast potatoes and gravy is really very hard to beat. Great hot for dinner and great next day for sandwiches – as the article says, it’s very versatile.
I get the impression that this recipe is one Mum wrote down while she was on the phone with a friend. It’s written on the type of notepad Mum kept by the phone and it has that abbreviated feel of being hurriedly written down.
This is another of Mum’s finds in the Woman’s Day. To be honest I can’t imagine her ever buying and using a packet of cake mix, she’d have made the cake from scratch. She made cupcakes and butterfly cakes that way so I’m sure she’d have done the same for these.
These were one of my father’s favourites and Mum often made them when she had some leftover lamb roast. I’m guessing that she first made them back in the 1940s and after I got married I typed up the recipe and added it to my collection. As Mum’s original is almost impossible to read I’ve included my version here as as well. I’ve no idea why they’re call Madras Cutlets, I suppose the curry powder gave them an exotic Indian flavour!!!
These are biscuits that the whole family will love and the best thing is that they’re inexpensive and easy to make.
This is a dessert that Mum made often, without the brandy though. I can remember her placing a large plate of them in the center of the table for us all to help ourselves. My mouth is watering at the thought of how we’d squash down the crunchy fritters and sprinkle white sugar on the top – they were yummm.
Over the years the Italian influence gradually crept into Mum’s cooking. She cut this Canneloni recipe out of the New Idea in 1994, I’m not sure she actually made it, but I’m sure she meant to one day. It certainly looks good.
This slice looks quite luscious, but then you can’t go far wrong with chocolate, sultanas, cherries, coconut and almonds – can you?
The combination of rhubarb, banana and orange seems unusual to me in this recipe, but I think the banana and orange would take some of the tartness out of the rhubarb, which could be good. I haven’t cooked it as my husband hates rhubarb, but you might like to try it out.
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