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Australian Recipes - Great Tasting Vintage Recipes From Down Under

Who said Aussies don't have great culinary taste? Here are some great tasting and inexpensive to prepare hearty vintage Australian salads and sauce recipes that anyone can enjoy ...

TURNIP SALAD

• 4 Young Turnips
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• 2 Spring Onions -- 1 1/2d.
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• 2 Boiled Potatoes -- 1/2d.
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• Half a Lettuce -- 1/2d.
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• Salad Dressing -- 4d.
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• Total Cost -- 6 ½ d.
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Peel and slice up the turnips and boil them for twenty minutes, or until soft. Let them get quite cold. Shred up very small the onions, and slice up the potatoes. Break up half a lettuce. Arrange these neatly in a bowl and pour over a simple salad dressing or remoulade sauce.

EAST INDIAN SALAD SAUCE

• 2 Eggs -- 2d.
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• 1 teaspoonful Curry Powder -- 1/2d.
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• ½ gill Oil
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• ¼ gill Vinegar -- 1 1/2d.
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• Total Cost -- 4d.
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Boil the eggs hard; put the yolks into a bowl and work them till they are quite smooth. Work in gradually the curry powder, oil, and vinegar.  Blend well, and it is ready. It may be used sometimes instead of mayonnaise or ordinary salad dressing.

BREAD SALAD

• 5 slices Stale Bread
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• ½ gill Oil
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• 3 Pickled Onions
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• 1 piece Pickled Cauliflower -- 2d.
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• 2 Eggs -- 2d.
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• 1 Beetroot
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• 2 slices Cold Mutton
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• 1 tablespoonful Vinegar -- 1d.
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• Mustard and Cress -- 1/2d.
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• Total Cost -- 51/2 d.
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Trim off the crust and cut the bread into dice, put into a bowl and pour over the oil. Let it stand till all the oil is absorbed; then mince up the onion, cauliflower, eggs, and meat, and strew them over.  Season with pepper and salt. Well wash the mustard and cress and arrange on the top. Cut the beetroot into neat shapes and arrange as a garnish.

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