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StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 1 17/6/10 7:09:24 PM StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 2-3 17/6/10 7:09:24 PM W r i t t e n b y R u t h i e M a y I l l u s t r a t e d b y L e i g h H O B B S Stew a Cockatoo My Aussie Cookbook StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 4-5 17/6/10 7:09:30 PM Table of Contents 4 Cooee, G’Day, Howya Goin’? 22 The Great Aussie Icon We Australians love our slang. ‘Arvo : Dinky-di Meat Pie tea’ sounds friendlier than ‘afternoon 5 Useful Cook’s Tools tea’ and ‘fair dinkum’ is more fun 24 Grandpa Bruce’s Great Aussie BBQ to say than ‘genuine’. This book is 6 ’Ave a Drink,Ya Mug! 26 It’s a Rissole, Love! jam-packed with Aussie slang. If you 8 The Bread Spread come across something you haven’t 28 Bangers, Snags and Mystery Bags heard before, don’t worry, now is your 10 Morning Tea for Lords chance to pick up some you-beaut lingo and Bush Pigs 30 Fish ’n’ Chips Down Under you can use with your mates. 12 Bikkies for the Boys 32 Bush Tucker 14 Arvo Tea at Auntie Beryl’s 34 From Over Yonder to Down Under 16 From the Esky 36 Dessert Dames For Norm Corker - the best sav stew maker 18 Horse Doovers 38 All Over, Pavlova in all of Oz. On ya, Gramps!-RM 20 Whacko the Chook! 40 Index Little Hare Books an imprint of Hardie Grant Egmont 85 High Street Cooee, g’day, Prahran, Victoria 3181, Australia www.littleharebooks.com howya goin’? Copyright © text Little Hare Books 2010 Copyright © illustrations Leigh Hobbs 2010 Text by Ruthie May First published 2010 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry May, Ruthie. Stew a cockatoo : my Aussie cookbook / written by Ruthie May; illustrated by Leigh Hobbs. 9781921541513 (hbk.) For primary school age. Cookery - Juvenile literature. Cookery - Australia. Hobbs, Leigh. 641.5994 Designed by Vida & Luke Kelly Produced by Pica Digital, Singapore Printed through Phoenix Offset Printed in Shen Zhen, Guangdong Province, China, August 2010 54321 StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 6-7 17/6/10 7:09:33 PM Cooee, G’Day, Useful Cook’s Tools Here are some tools that you will find Sharp knife Howya Goin’? useful when using this cookbook. Scales This is a book for the whole in a Patty case family-kids and oldies alike. It’s (page 15). Some of Large mixing bowl full of old-time Aussie recipes, the recipes have come all the way with a few new ones added in. Some Down Under from faraway places like Italy and Mexico, but here they you will have heard of, like Damper are given a you-beaut Aussie twist. (page 9) and Lamingtons (page 11). Billy can Others are brand-spanking-new All the recipes celebrate the grub versions of golden oldies, like that Aussies love to eat –from Chopping board barbies with the rellies, to fine Edna Split (page 37) and Roo Doo Small mixing bowl dining with mates beside the pool. An oldie There are just three important an anklebiter might come in handy. And Apron things to remember when cooking besides, they will make the kitchen much Oven glove from this book: more fun. If you’re a kid, you’ll need an oldie Tongs Baking tray (a grown-up) to help—a grandad, Cooking tucker gran, mum, dad, brother, sis, auntie, is easy, just unc or cuz. Cooking can be dangerous—there ’avago! are hot stoves, hot oil, camp fires, knives and Measuring BBQ Teaspoon blenders. You’ll also need some help getting jug the jumbuck in the tuckerbag. So make sure you always have someone to help. If you’re an oldie, you’ll need a kid Wooden spoon to help. Cooking can be hard work— there are pots to scrub, spuds to peel and things to chop. You just don’t know when 8 9 StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 8-9 17/6/10 7:09:40 PM B i l l y T e a Method Fill the billy can with the water. Wait for the fire to burn down to red-hot coals ’Ave a Drink, Serves 2 and, using the forked stick, place You will need a billy can, the billy on the coals. Wait for the a sturdy forked stick and water to boil, then remove billy Ya Mug! a camp fire from coals using the forked stick. Add the tea (a teaspoon for each person and one for the pot) and Living in Australia is thirsty work, Ingredients allow to brew for about 3 minutes. especially during the hot summers! 2 cups water Pour into 2 mugs. Add a teaspoon You’ll want a few cool drinks up your Grab a friend and a 3 teaspoons black tea of sugar and a splash of milk, if sleeve. Try these bonza drinks. And billy, and bat the breeze. Sugar and milk, if you like that’s how you like it. don’t forget billy tea, it’s more It’s paradise. refreshing than you might think on a hot summer’s day! B e r r y S h a k e Redback Spider Serves 2–4 Serves 1 You will need a blender Ingredients Ingredients 2 scoops vanilla ice-cream 1/ cup frozen berries 2 600 ml red 2 cups milk creaming soda 2 tablespoons honey 2 scoops vanilla ice-cream 1/4 teaspoon vanilla Method essence Place the ice-cream in a tall 4 ice cubes milkshake glass (or the biggest Crushed nuts glass you can find in the cupboard). (optional) Fill slowly with the creaming soda. It’s best to drink your Redback Spider with a straw—it’s Billy tea is different to all other teas. The traditional so bubbly, creamy and spidery you don’t want smoky flavour comes from the Method tin sitting on the coals to drink too much at once! smoke curls into the ;tin the and Throw everything in the flavours the tea. blender. Blend. Drink. 10 11 StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 10-11 17/6/10 7:09:44 PM Damper with Aussie Chrissie C o c k y ’ s J o y Damper The Bread Spread Serves 4 Follow the directions for You will need a mixing bowl, measuring cups Damper with Cocky’s Joy, and spoons, a flour sifter and a large baking but before you cook tray. And very clean hands! your dough, shape it into a star. Poke in Ingredients some sultanas. 3 cups self-raising flour This will make 1 teaspoon salt a beaut spotty- star Christmas 2 teaspoons sugar damper. 1 tablespoon chilled butter, cubed 1 cup water (or milk) Auntie’s Chrissie- Cocky’s Joy (golden syrup) themed damper. Butter, extra It might look like a large, flat rock but it’s damper, B i l l y L o a f bread from the bush. Method Preheat the oven to 200˚C and grease a large baking tray. Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Grease and flour Sifters were a 2-litre billy can (ask an oldie to show you invented to get the Sift the flour and salt into a mixing bowl. weevils and bugs how). out of flour. Mix in the sugar. Using your fingers, rub the butter into the Make one batch of Damper with Cocky’s Joy, flour mixture. Add the water (or milk), a little but instead of shaping it into a ball, place it in at a time, mixing all the time with your hands the billy and put the lid on. Bake in the oven People still cook damper over open for 45 minutes. Ask an oldie to check on it Damper was invented by the Indigenous fires in the bush. But mostly, (but don’t lick your fingers!). You want the after 30 minutes by removing from the oven Australians. Fair dinkum. They used Aussies cook this old bush tucker dough to be a bit gooey, but not runny. to make their bush bread from wild and peeking under the lid. If it hasn’t gone in their modern kitchen ovens. We’re Place the dough on a floured bench and shape it grains and nuts. When white people going to show you how to bake it golden, place back in the oven for a further came, drovers and stockmen used flour that way. One day, you should ask into a flat ball. Place on the baking tray and bake 15 minutes. to make bread the way the First an oldie —preferably an Indigenous for 30 minutes or until golden brown on top. —to show you how it If you want your Billy Loaf to be even tastier, Australians did, cooking it in the Australian oldie Eat your damper while it is still warm. It coals of an open camp fire. White is cooked in a fire. add 1 cup of mixed dried fruit to the dough folks called it damper. tastes best with butter and drizzled with mix before you put it in your billy can. Cocky’s Joy. 12 13 StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 12-13 17/6/10 7:09:51 PM Lord Lamington’s Pikelets Lamingtons Morning Tea for Makes about 24 pikelets You will need 2 mixing bowls, a frying pan and Makes 16 large lamingtons an eggflip Lords and Bush Pigs You will need a mixing bowl In Australia and a cooling rack there’s always time for a Ingredients Lord Lamington was the governor of 1 cup self-raising flour Queensland in the early days.