CURRIED SAUSAGES

What did we do before coconut cream in a can?  The answer is in this old recipe of Mum’s.  She may not have had canned coconut cream or a jar of curry simmer sauce or paste, but Mum’s curried sausages were still great and you can see by the age of her recipe that she’d been making them for a long, long time.

Curried Sausages

 

CURRIED SAUSAGES

  • 750g sausages
  • 1 apple
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • Juice and grated peel of 1 lemon
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tablespoon curry powder
  • 1 dessertspoon flour
  • 2 tablespoons desiccated coconut

Put coconut in saucepan with cupful of stock or water.  Bring to boil, boil for a few minutes.  Strain off liquid, discard coconut.  Fry flour and curry powder in a little fat for a few minutes, add liquid from coconut, add sugar and lemon, stir well.  Cook until smooth, pour into saucepan.  Fry sausages till brown add to curry sauce.  Slice onion and apple, fry till brown in little of sausage fat.  Drain.  Add to sausage and curry sauce.  Cook slowly for 1 hour.  Rice or chutney may be added.

MARBLED CHEESECAKE BROWNIES

I’ve been making a chocolate swirl cheesecake for the family for many years and Mum has always enjoyed it.  I think that’s what prompted her to cut this recipe out of the New Idea.  It’s a great way of turning an old favorite into a slice or you can still serve it up as a dessert.

Marbled Cheesecake Brownies

GLAZED LAMB LOAF

Instead of using mince steak this meatloaf uses minced lamb and it’s other unusual ingredient is a container of potato salad.  Usually potato salad accompanies a meatloaf instead of being mixed in, but the potato and it’s mayonnaise dressing combined with the French onion soup mix make this a tasty change.

Glazed Lamb Loaf

PORK VEGETABLE CURRY

This is a bit more modern curry recipe than Mum originally made.  Mum made curries using just curry powder and nothing as fancy as red lentils and coriander, but I think this recipe appealed to her as it had pumpkin and cauliflower in it, vegetables she really liked.

Pork Vegetable Curry

THREE MEATLOAF RECIPES

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.

Meatloaves x 3