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 sweets recipes that anyone can enjoy ...
POTATO FRITTERS
• Cold Potatoes
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• 1 Egg
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• 2 oz. Sugar
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• Nutmeg or Lemon Peel
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• Hot Fat
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• Total Cost -- 11/2 d.
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• Time -- 5 Minutes.
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Mash up the potatoes very smoothly, beat in the sugar and a flavouring of nutmeg or grated lemon peel. Beat up the egg and pour over the potatoes and mix into a paste; form into small round cakes. Fry in very hot fat till brown; pile high on a dish, sprinkle with sugar and serve. One egg is sufficient for about 1 lb., potatoes.
APPLE FRITTERS
• 3 Apples -- 2d.
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• Frying Batter -- 1d.
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• Hot Fat
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• Sugar
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• Lemon -- 1d.
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• Total Cost -- 4d.
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• Time -- 5 Minutes.
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Peel and slice up the apples into rounds, take out the core with a small round cutter. Make frying batter by directions given elsewhere, and flavour with lemon juice. Dip in the pieces of apple, plunge into plenty of hot fat, and fry till a good colour. Drain on kitchen paper, pile high on a dish, and sprinkle well with sugar; serve very hot.
SWEET OMELET
• 2 Eggs -- 2d.
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• ½ oz. Butter -- 1/2d.
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• 1 teaspoonful Jam -- 1/2d.
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• Sugar -- 1/2d.
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• Total Cost -- 31/2 d.
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• Time -- 5 Minutes.
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Put the yolks of the eggs into a basin and beat in half the sugar, put the whites on to a plate with a little sugar, and whip till stiff; mix with the yolks. Put the butter into a small frying-pan, and when it is dissolved pour in the mixture; leave over the fire for about three minutes. Then hold the pan in front of the fire for a minute or two to brown the top. Put the jam on to a hot plate, slip the omelet on the top; serve at once.
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