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LAMB ROAST

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We’re just back from a terrific holiday in Europe.  We ate lots of great meals in Italy, France and England, but as always it’s good to be home – back to the land of affordable lamb and beef.  This is my favourite Lamb Roast recipe, I wrote it down for Mum years ago.  As you can see it’s a bit sketchy, there’s no quantities you just put as much onion and potato in the baking dish as you need.

Lamb Roast

LAMB ROAST

Fry onions in butter or margarine.  Tip into the bottom of a baking pan and cover with sliced potatoes.  Pour over beef stock until not quite covered.  Generously rub salt and pepper into a leg of lamb.   Put the lamb on a rack over the onion & potato mix and bake at 180o.  Cooking time depends on the size of the leg of lamb, but it needs a bit extra time to crisp up the onion & potato.

 

RICH IRISH STEW

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This recipe was published by the Australian Meat Board to promote lamb and Mum would have picked the leaflet up from the counter at her local butcher’s shop.    It’s a recipe I’ve cooked a lot over the years and still do.  You can’t beat a lamb casserole on a cold winter’s night can you?

Rich Irish Stew

ALMOND CRISPS

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When my children were at school I used to bake a batch of biscuits at least once a week and these were a great favourite.  I must have written this recipe out for Mum grabbing the first bit of paper I could find and used a texta to write with, not a great piece of penmanship.  It comes out of one of my biscuit cookbooks that was published in the 60s, but I made them a lot later than that.  You’ll need 125g of butter.

Almond Crisps

ALL IN ONE CASSEROLE

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This is a very hearty beef casserole great for these winter nights.  I like the fact that everything is thrown in one dish and you can put it in the oven and forget it for a couple of hours.  The recipe converts to 250g of blade steak, but you could put more in if you want to bulk it up a bit.

All in One Beef Casserole

 

GRASSHOPPER PIE

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This is the twin of Brandy Alexander Pie both very much desserts of the 70s.  They have basically the same ingredients, but this one has creme de menthe instead of brandy.  Mum cut both recipes out, probably because I’d told her about making them for dinner parties for our friends.  I haven’t heard of anyone making them for a long, long time now though………………..

Grasshopper Pie 1

BRANDY ALEXANDER PIE

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This is very much a dessert from the 70s.  Brandy Alexander Pie together with its twin  Grasshopper Pie were all the fashion back then.  They are basically the same recipe but this one has brandy and creme de cacao and the other has creme de menthe and creme de cacao.  I liked this one, but I think you can see why they both went out of favor.

Brandy Alexander Pie

AMERICAN RECIPE FOR TINNED MAYFAIR HAM

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Ham is one of the things that has changed enormously on our table and in our cooking over the years. In Australia it wasn’t served very often. At Christmas the big treat was chicken, not turkey or ham which were very American and not available as they are today. The only way we saw large pieces of ham at our house was from a tin – the best brand being Mayfair.  This old recipe at first glance sounds a bit strange, but the combination of ham, mustard, ginger and pineapple could taste quite good, I think I’d top it with a bit of cheese though.  Might be worth retrying with a better quality piece of ham?

American Ham Recipe