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 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 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 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, 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 ; tinthe 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 sifter and a large baking but before you cook tray. And very clean hands! your , 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 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 in the early days. He was also cuppa and a bit of chit chat. Ingredients a clumsy old codger. One day at morning tea 1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda 500 g icing sugar he accidentally dropped his cake into a pot 3 tablespoons white sugar 1/ cup cocoa of runny chocolate. He ate it and thought 3 1 egg it tasted better dipped in chocolate than 15 g butter 3/ cup milk it did plain. The only problem was, it 4 1/2 cup milk made his fingers messy. He suggested that 2 teaspoons butter, melted 3 cups his cook dip pieces of cake in chocolate Butter, extra desiccated and then roll them in desiccated coconut coconut Your favourite jam so they wouldn’t be so sticky. That’s how 2 ready- some folk think the lamington was invented. made square sponge cakes Method Sift the flour and bicarbonate of soda into Ingredients Method a mixing bowl and stir in the sugar. In a Bush-Pig separate bowl, beat the egg with the milk and Sift the icing sugar and cocoa into a 12 slices white bread melted butter. Slowly mix the wet mixture into heatproof bowl. Add the butter and milk. Fairy Bread 100 g butter, softened the dry mixture until the batter is smooth. Hundreds and thousands Stir over a pan of hot water until the icing is smooth and glossy. Grease a frying pan with a little bit of butter. Drop Makes about 24 Spread the coconut on a large plate. Trim the a tablespoon of batter pieces Method brown crust from the top and sides of the into the pan and cook You will need cake. Cut each cake into eight evenly sized Spread the bread slices evenly with the until golden brown on cookie-cutter square pieces. Stick a fork into one piece butter. Use different-shaped cutters the bottom, with bubbles shapes of cake and dip it into the warm (preferably a pig shape) to cut shapes appearing on top. Turn with icing. Allow any excess icing to from the bread. Place the hundreds an eggflip and cook the drip off. Toss the iced cake in and thousands on a plate. Press the other side for a minute the coconut, to coat. Place on a bread, butter-side down, into the or so. Cook in batches of cooling rack to set. Repeat with hundreds and thousands to coat. three or four. Spread with the remaining pieces of cake. Eat with all your bush-pig friends. butter and jam to serve.

14 15

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 14-15 17/6/10 7:10:00 PM Anzac Biscuits Method Preheat the oven to 150˚C and grease a baking tray. Bikkies for Makes about 24 biscuits Mix the sugar, oats, coconut and flour in You will need a baking tray, 2 mixing bowls a bowl. Pour in the melted butter and mix the Boys and a cooling rack thoroughly. In a separate bowl combine the bicarbonate of soda, Cocky’s Joy and boiling water, and add to the oat mixture. Mix well. Ingredients Australia loves Drop tablespoonfuls of mixture onto the 1 cup raw sugar its Anzacs and its baking tray, leaving a gap between each one, 1 cup rolled oats Anzac bikkies. and bake for 20 minutes. Allow to cool on a 1 cup desiccated coconut cooling rack. 1 cup plain flour 125 g butter, melted 1 teaspoon bicarbonate Grandpa Bruce’s personal of soda assistant does the Anzac biscuit taste-test. 1 tablespoon Cocky’s Joy (golden syrup) 2 tablespoons boiling water

biscuit. It was hard and full of The Anzac biscuit was first made sugar and it lasted the long journey during World War I, when more than by sea to the trenches in France, 330 000 Australians served in the Gallipoli and even Egypt. armed forces. Along with the New Anzac Day, April 25, is the day when Zealanders, Australian soldiers were we remember the hard work, bravery half a world away from their home, and sacrifice of the Australian and any packages of food sent to them soldiers, doctors and nurses who have from their families arrived mouldy served in conflicts throughout our and inedible. So the women back home history. Making anzac bikkies and —the mums, grannies, in Australia sharing them with your friends is a sisters, wives and girlfriends of good way to celebrate the day. came up with the Anzac the soldiers —

16 17

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 16-17 17/6/10 7:10:04 PM Proud Beryl with another Queensland Blue scone triumph. Arvo Tea at P u m p k i n S c o n e s Auntie Beryl’s Makes about 20 scones You will need 2 baking trays, a rolling pin, a 4 cm round cookie cutter and a pastry brush

Did you know that there are Pass us the scone-baking competitions jam, love! all around Australia? Many Ingredients are held in country towns. 1 1/2 tablespoons butter, softened Why not practise some of the 1/2 cup sugar recipes here and try your 1 egg R o o D o o i n a luck? You could even organise (chocolate a competition amongst your 1 cup cooked and mashed pumpkin (preferably Queensland Blue) P a t t y C a s e crackles) neighbours and friends! 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted Beryl’s Bonza Milk Makes about 20 Your favourite jam You will need a large mixing bowl, a saucepan, Scones Whipped cream Method 20 paper patty cases and a baking tray Preheat the oven to 220˚C and grease 2 Makes about 30 scones baking trays. Sift the flour and salt into a Method You will need 2 baking trays, a rolling pin, a bowl. Rub the butter into the flour until you Ingredients have a crumbly mixture. Make a well in the Preheat the oven to 220˚C and grease 2 125 g copha 4 cm round cookie cutter, a pastry brush and baking trays. Using an electric beater, cream centre and mix in the milk to make a soft 2 cups rice bubbles very clean hands the butter and sugar. Add the egg and mix dough. Turn the dough out onto a 3/ cup sifted icing sugar until light and fluffy. Mix in the pumpkin. Add 4 floured surface. Knead lightly and 1 1/ tablespoons sifted cocoa the flour and mix well. Turn mixture out onto 2 Ingredients quickly, until soft, then roll out 1/ cup desiccated coconut a floured surface. Roll out to a thickness of 2 3 cups self-raising to a thickness of 2 cm. Cut into flour rounds with the cutter. Place 2 cm. Cut into rounds with the cutter. Place the rounds on the baking trays. Brush the 1 teaspoon salt the rounds on the baking trays. Method tops lightly with milk. Bake for 15–20 minutes, 60 g chilled Brush the tops lightly with butter, cubed until risen and golden. Allow to cool on the Melt the copha in a saucepan over low heat. milk. Bake for 10–15 minutes, Allow to cool. Mix the remaining ingredients 1 cup milk trays, but while they are still warm serve with until risen and golden. Allow in a large bowl. Stir in the copha and mix Milk, extra jam and cream. to cool on the trays, but well. Spoon the mixture into paper patty Your favourite jam while they are still warm cases. Place the filled cases on a tray and Whipped cream serve with jam and cream. refrigerate until set. 18 19

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 18-19 17/6/10 7:10:10 PM J o e B l a k e s i n t h e Billabong Surprise Billabong Follow Frogs in the Billabong recipe, but put From the Esky a combination of snake, frog and dinosaur Follow Frogs in the Billabong recipe, but use snake lollies instead of frogs. lollies into the jelly mixture. Without an esky Joe Blake is rhyming slang on a summer’s day, for snake. In the late 1800s, people loved your drinks are eating jellies. But they didn’t have warm and your icy refrigerators to set the jellies in. pole is a puddle. Instead they would lower the jelly, in its jelly mould, down a well where it Dinky-di Banana Benders was chilly and dank. The trouble was that frogs also liked the cool, dark I c y P o l e s depths of wells. Frogs would sometimes —and get stuck Makes 8 jump into the jellies You will need 8 wooden , cling wrap there! Makes about 12 icy poles and a tray You will need 2 icy-pole trays and a blender Ingredients Frogs in the Ingredients 8 ripe bananas, peeled 2 kiwifruits, peeled 500 g chocolate (white, dark or Billabong 2 oranges, peeled and removed milk), broken into pieces 2 apples, cored Crushed nuts (optional) Serves 6 1 punnet strawberries, hulled 2 passionfruits Method 1/2 cup pineapple juice or orange juice Ingredients Line a tray with cling wrap. Push a wooden 1 packet green or blue jelly up the length of each banana. Arrange Method bananas on the tray and freeze overnight. 6 chocolate or lolly frogs Chop the kiwifruit, oranges and apples into Melt the chocolate in a heatproof bowl over a chunks. Place in blender, along with the pan of simmering water, stirring all the time. Method strawberries, passionfruit pulp, pineapple juice Remove the bananas from the freezer and Make green or blue jelly according to the and orange juice. Blend. Pour evenly into the coat each banana in the melted chocolate. packet instructions. Allow the mixture to cool icy-pole trays and put on the lids with sticks. Dip in crushed nuts, if using, and place back but not set. Stick frogs into the jelly. Leave Freeze overnight before serving. on the tray. Freeze for a further 30 minutes to set in the fridge. before serving. 20 21

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 20-21 17/6/10 7:10:14 PM S w a g g i e i n Method Spread a slice of bread with some cream a B l a n k e t cheese. Lay one asparagus spear diagonally across it. Wrap the bread around the asparagus and pin with a toothpick. Repeat Horse Doovers Makes 20 horse doovers until you have made all 20. Place in an Something people You will need toothpicks and an airtight plastic container or cover with cling eat, not something airtight container or cling wrap wrap and chill for at least 20 minutes before horses do. serving. Horse Doovers is a silly Aussie , which A swaggie is the way of saying hors d’oeuvres nickname for a swagman. Ingredients They were called swagmen is the fancy French way of saying are the because they carried a swag or ‘nibbles’. Hors d’oeuvres 20 slices white bread bundle of belongings over their shoulder as they little snacks that you might eat 250 g softened cream travelled through cheese before dinner. At most Aussie the bush. barbeques horse doovers consist of 2 tins asparagus a packet of chips and some dip. But here are a few fancier ideas.

E c h i d n a D e l i g h t Ingredients 1 large orange Fair Dinkum 250 g cheddar cheese, cubed Cheese BallS Makes 24 horse doovers 8 gherkins, each cut into 3 You will need toothpicks 2 long cabanossi sausages, each cut into 12 chunks 24 cocktail pickled onions (a mix of Makes 40 horse doovers red, white and green) You will need a grater and large mixing bowl Method Ingredients Method Slice off bottom of orange to create a flat end, 250 g tasty cheddar cheese, grated Mix the cheeses in a large bowl, until well and sit the orange on a serving plate. Thread 250 g Aussie Edam cheese, grated combined. Mix in the remaining ingredients. a chunk of cheese onto a toothpick, followed 250 g cream cheese Roll teaspoonfuls of the mixture into little by a chunk of gherkin, cabanossi, then pickled 1/2 cup diced ham balls. Chill before serving so that they firm onion. Push the loaded-up toothpick into 1/2 cup diced red capsicum up. Serve with crackers. Yum yum, pig’s bum. the orange. Repeat until you have created a 1/4 cup diced spring onion colourful, echidna-like object. It is a perfect 1/4 cup diced gherkin centrepiece for the horse doovers table. 22 23

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 22-23 17/6/10 7:10:19 PM Stewed Cockatoo

Whacko the Serves 4, but you might still be hungry after From flamin’ galahs to You will need a billy can cookin’ chook, Australia loves its birds! Chook! Ingredients Thighs, breasts and eggs 1 cockatoo (preferably not your have it all and are loved—chooks by neighbour’s pet), plucked most, so we have a few chook Scrambled Googs Water recipes for you below. In the 6 or so pebbles from a creek old days, when chooks were hard Salt to come by, people had to rely on bush birds. Birds like bush Serves 1 turkeys, cockatoos, parrots and You will need a mixing Method pigeons were all boiled, fried bowl and a saucepan and stewed! We have included a Place your cockatoo in a billy can. Fill classic Aussie bird recipe here Cockatoo is with water. Add the pebbles and a pinch of for you to try (or not). off the menu! salt. Boil for 2 or 3 days, adding water as Ingredients necessary. When the pebbles are soft, chuck 2 eggs out the cockatoo and eat the pebbles. Salt and pepper 2 tablespoons milk (or cream) 1 teaspoon butter Chook Nuggets

In Australia, eggs can also be called googy eggs and Method cackleberries. Method Serves 2 Preheat the oven to 190˚C. Grease a baking Break the eggs into a bowl. Season with a You will need a mixing bowl and large tray. pinch of salt and pepper. Add the milk (or baking tray Cut the chicken into finger-sized lengths. cream). Beat with a fork until the whites and Crush the cornflakes into fine crumbs and yolks are well mixed. add a pinch of salt to the mix. Dip the Ingredients Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add the egg chicken in the evaporated milk and then roll 250 g boneless skinless chicken breast mixture and stir constantly over low heat. The in the cornflake mixture. Place the chicken mixture will begin to turn a pale yellowy-white. 1 cup cornflakes pieces on the baking tray, spray with canola While the eggs are still soft and a little gooey, Salt oil and bake for 10 minutes or until golden remove from heat. They will keep cooking in 1/2 cup evaporated milk brown. Serve with a bowl of tomato or the hot pan even after you have taken it off Canola oil spray barbeque sauce. the stove. Serve on hot buttered toast. Tomato or barbeque sauce 24 25

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 24-25 17/6/10 7:10:23 PM Method A u s s i e M e a t P i e Place the beef in a bowl and coat with the The Great Aussie Icon: flour. Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a frying Serves 6 pan and cook the beef over medium heat until lightly browned on all sides. You might have You will need a large bowl, a large frying pan, to do this in batches, adding a little extra oil Dinki-di a 25 cm pie dish, baking paper, pie weights (or if necessary. Transfer to a bowl. Ever heard a meat dried lentils or beans will do) and a pastry brush Reduce the heat slightly and add the pie called a ‘dog’s eye’? Don’t worry, remaining oil. Add the onion and cook for pies don’t really contain dogs’ eyes. 2 minutes. Return the beef to the pan, along It’s just rhyming slang when you use Ingredients a funny rhyming nickname instead with the stock and a little salt and pepper. of the proper name. 700 g lean beef steak, cut into 2 cm cubes Simmer, covered, over low heat for 1 hour 2 tablespoons plain flour or until the meat is tender. 1/4 cup vegetable oil Increase the heat and cook uncovered for You could say that the meat pie is 1 brown onion, chopped 10 minutes until the sauce thickens. Remove one of Australia’s favourite food. 1 1/4 cups beef stock from the heat and allow to cool. Chill in the Aussies eat around 500 million meat Salt and pepper fridge for 30 minutes. pies a year! It’s the number-one food eaten at footy games. On AFL Grand 1 sheet ready-made shortcrust pastry While the meat mixture is cooling preheat the Final Day at the MCG, over 90 000 pies 2 sheets ready-made oven to 180˚C and grease the pie dish. Lay are eaten. You would need a lot of puff pastry the shortcrust pastry in the pie dish. Cut off tomato sauce for all those pies. It’s 1 egg, beaten any excess pastry that hangs over the sides, estimated that around 500 000 tonnes Tomato sauce of tomato sauce are used on meat pies cover with baking paper and spread the pie in Australia each year. weights on top. Bake for 15 minutes. (This is called blind-baking—where you cook the pastry before the filling is added.) Remove from the oven and spoon in the cooled beef filling. Increase the oven temperature to Pie Floater Method 200˚C. Cover the pie with the puff pastry sheets and trim off any overhang. Brush the Cook your pie and warm up top with the egg and bake for 25 minutes. your soup according to the Serves 4 Remove and enjoy with plenty of tomato sauce. instructions on the packaging. Ladle the soup into four Ingredients separate bowls. Place 4 individual ready-made frozen a pie into each meat pies bowl of soup. 1 can ready-made Serve with Tomato sauce (not really optional) tomato sauce.

26 27

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 26-27 17/6/10 7:10:27 PM , Jimbo s Prawn Skewers Grandpa Bruce’s J u m b o S t e a k s Serves 4 You will need a barbeque and skewers Great Aussie BBQ Serves 4 Throw another You will need a barbeque snag, raw prawn The Aussie barbeque is the - Ingredients the backyard, and or whatever natural habitat for many like on the 12 green king prawns, shelled and everyone swats flies. you- Ingredients deveined Aussies, especially during our barbie! long, hot summers. Generally, On the next few pages 4 large topside steaks 2 cloves garlic, crushed

the sheilas make salads in the you will find some bonza Tomato sauce 2 tablespoons honey kitchen, the blokes guard the barbeque recipes, including 2 tablespoons soy sauce barbeque, the kids run amok in steak, burgers, sausages 1 tablespoon lemon juice and prawns! Method Fire up the barbie till it’s hot, hot, hot. Place Grandpa Bruce, the steak on the barbie. Cook for 5 minutes. Method BBQ king. Turn steak over. Cook for a further 5 minutes. Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl, The golden rule of barbequed steak: turn cover and leave in the fridge for at least 30 it only once. Serve on a plate minutes (preferably for a few hours). with tomato sauce and Thread the prawns onto the maybe some skewers, and whack salad. them on a hot barbeque. Cook for 2–3 minutes on each side.

28 29

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 28-29 17/6/10 7:10:31 PM Uncle Daz, working Uncle Daz’s Mega his mince magic. B B Q B u r g e r

It’s a Rissole, Love! Makes 6 burgers You will need a barbeque

There is nothing better Ingredients than a few rissoles Mayonnaise from the barbie. Tomato sauce 6 white rolls, cut in half 6 rissoles, cooked on the barbie (see Auntie Bev’s Rissoles recipe) 2 onions, sliced and fried on Auntie Bev’s the barbie 6 slices tasty cheddar cheese Rissoles 6 rashers bacon, cooked on the barbie 6 leaves iceberg lettuce, Makes about 12 rissoles shredded You will need a large bowl, cling wrap 3 tomatoes, thinly sliced and a barbeque 6 slices canned beetroot 6 rings tinned pineapple Method 6 eggs, fried on the barbie Ingredients Mix all of the ingredients in a bowl, except 500 g beef mince for the beaten egg, dried breadcrumbs and Uncle Daz, lovingly tenderising his mince. 1 onion, grated oil. Mould the mixture into small hand-sized

3/4 cup fresh breadcrumbs patties. Dip the patties into the beaten egg 2 tablespoons plain flour and roll them in the dried breadcrumbs. 1 egg Place on a plate, cover with cling wrap and Method Salt and pepper chill them in the fridge for 30 minutes. Spread a little of the mayonnaise and tomato 1 tablespoon tomato sauce Fire up the barbie, add the oil to the hotplate sauce on the base of each roll. Top with a 2 tablespoons fresh parsley, and cook the patties for 3 minutes on each rissole, more tomato sauce, some onion, a slice chopped side or until they turn a dark brown. You can of cheese, a rasher of bacon, some lettuce, 1 egg, extra, beaten test to see whether they are cooked by cutting slices of tomato, beetroot, pineapple and a fried 2 cups dried breadcrumbs one patty in half. If it is still pink, turn the egg. Cover with the top half of the roll. Try to 2 tablespoons oil heat down and cook through. wrap your laughing gear around that. 30 31

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 30-31 17/6/10 7:10:35 PM What’s in a Kanga Banger Skippy sausage, otherwise known as kangaroo Bangers, Snags and Name? sausage. In many ways, this is a true-blue Aussie sausage. y Sav or Saveloy M stery Bag Beef Snag s The old-school term for sausage. Usually it Cow sausage Fair suck of meant what we would call a frankfurt. Your Gramps or Gran might remember the the sav! days when a sausage was called a saveloy. Pork Snag Frankfurt Ask them if they’ve ever heard the phrase, Pig sausage ‘Fair suck of the sav’. During the Great A reddish, rubbery Mystery Bag of a Depression, families used to share just Chook Snag sausage that definitely doesn’t belong on the one sausage between them for dinner. They’d barbeque. They are boiled or steamed and pull it out of the stew and each have Chicken sausage used in hotdogs. a tasty suck. If someone took too long, Little Johnny, waiting patiently for his Lamb Snag turn, would yell out, ‘Hey! Fair suck of Mystery Bag the sav! It’s my turn!’ That’s where some Sheep sausage Who knows what kind of meat? people think this saying came from. Throw a snag T o f u S n a g on the barbie - the question is, The vegetarian alternative, only just becoming beef what sort? acceptable at Aussie barbeques. These sausages snag chook pork cause less offence than they used to. snag snag saveloy tofu or sav snag kanga banger lamb snag mystery Snags on the bag Barbie

Makes 8 snags Method You will need a barbeque Turn on the barbeque to a medium heat. Coat the hotplate with a thin layer of oil. Lightly prick the snags with a fork. Place them on Ingredients the barbeque and cook for about 20 minutes, 8 snags, any type (except frankfurt) turning every 5 minutes so that the snags Vegetable or olive oil, enough to cook evenly. Serve with tomato sauce in a roll thinly cover the barbeque plate or with salad. 32 33

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 32-33 17/6/10 7:10:42 PM Chunky Chips Method Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Cut the potatoes Fish ’n’ Chips into slices 2 cm wide. Cut each slice into long Serves 4–6 sticks, each about 2 cm wide. You will need 1 or 2 deep oven trays (or Pour oil into a deep oven tray, to a depth of roasting tins), tongs and paper towel about 1 cm. Place your spud sticks Down Under Cooking your own in a single layer in the oil. Aussie fish ’n’ Bake for 30 minutes. Turn the chips isn’t hard if Did you know that in Australia you know how. Ingredients chips over and return to the people eat sharks much more 6 spuds, peeled and oven for another 30 minutes. often than sharks eat people? washed Remove from the oven, place Next time you are at your 2 cups vegetable oil on paper towel to drain off the fish ’n’ chip shop, ask for a great white with chips. If Salt oil and sprinkle with a little salt the shopkeeper looks at you White vinegar and a splash of vinegar. strangely, ask for flake instead. Flake is any species of small shark and is commonly used in your regular battered fish ’n’ chip takeaway. You-Beaut Method Snapper Pat the fish fillets dry with a paper towel. Mix the flour and a little salt and pepper in a bowl. Make a well in the centre of the flour, Serves 4 add the beaten egg and mix well. Add the Despite what your dad might You will need a mixing bowl, deep frying pan water slowly, stirring all the time. Stir the say, spuds (otherwise known as batter until smooth. potatoes) grow in the ground, or large saucepan, eggflip and paper towel not behind your ears. So the Pour oil into a frying pan, to a depth of about first thing you have to do is 4 cm. Heat the oil over high heat. Meanwhile, give your spuds a good wash to Ingredients dip each fillet in the batter for a few seconds get the soil off. If you were a 4 snapper fillets and allow any excess batter to drip of. Once swaggie, you would then take out 3 your knife — the one you use for /4 cup plain oil is hot, place fillets in the pan. flour shaving, hunting and trimming Deep-fry for 5 minutes, turn the your toenails — and you’d use Salt and pepper fillets over using an eggflip, then it to slice away the spud skin. 1 egg, beaten fry for another 5 minutes or until But, because you’re probably 3/4 cup water cooked through. not a swaggie, grab a potato Vegetable oil Drain on paper peeler from the kitchen drawer. Carefully peel all the skin off. towel. Serve with Then give the spuds another wash. Chunky Chips.

34 35

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 34-35 17/6/10 7:10:46 PM Roo Stew with Ingredients 2 tablespoons olive oil B u s h T o m a t o e s 500 g kangaroo fillet, cubed 1 onion, diced 1 cup beef stock Bush Tucker Serves 4 1 carrot, diced You will need a deep frying 1 stick celery, diced pan or large saucepan 4 bush tomatoes (or any tomatoes will do), diced 1-2 teaspoons cornflour have gathered,

cooked and eaten bush tucker for When the white fellas turned up in 1/2 cup water more than 50 000 years. Australia Australia, they didn’t have this You can find dried is a very large continent and knowledge. They didn’t have a clue bush tomatoes in some each of the different regions has what to eat and some of them starved gourmet food stores. Method slightly different bush tucker. even though they were surrounded by Bush tomatoes grow in Some of the wild foods you can find plenty of excellent bush tucker. They the very arid desert Heat the oil in frying pan or saucepan. Add could have had food like sugarbag areas of Central the kangaroo meat and onion and fry for 5 around Australia include all sorts Australia. of fish, crabs, prawns, octopus, honey, wattle seeds, barbequed emu, minutes, or until just browned. Add the stock, lizards, kangaroos, emus and their crocodile curry, kangaroo stew, smoked barramundi wrapped in native ginger reduce the heat and simmer for 25 minutes. eggs, turtles, berries, nuts, yams Add the carrot, celery and tomatoes, and and lilly pillies. And there are leaves and sun-dried bush tomatoes. many traditional ways of cooking Here’s a fair-dinkum Aussie recipe simmer for a further 25 minutes. To thicken these foods — smoking, barbequing and using traditional Australian the sauce, stir the cornflour into 1/2 cup cold stewing, to name but a few. ingredients, as well as a few water and add this to the stew. Simmer for a introduced ones. further 5 minutes before serving.

Some bush tucker may need coaxing into your pot.

Some feral bush tucker on the boil 36 37

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 36-37 17/6/10 7:10:51 PM S p a g B o l f r o m Nachos from I t a l y t o I n g h a m Mexico to From Over Yonder Mandurah Serves 4–6 You will need a frying pan and large saucepan to Down Under Serves 4 You will need a baking tray and a blender olives and cheese; and the Ingredients Since the time when only the Lebanese with hoummos, tabouli 2 tablespoons olive oil lived here, many and chook . Australia is Ingredients people from different cultures truly a lucky country to have so 1 onion, diced have arrived on this continent, many different cooks who know how 1 clove garlic, crushed 2 x 400 g tins red kidney beans and they have brought with them to make good food. 500 g beef mince 400 g tin crushed tomatoes all sorts of delicious grub. The 3 cloves garlic, crushed Chinese do some top stuff with Here are two modern Aussie 1 cup beef stock pork; the Greeks with yoghurts, favourites. 400 g tin chopped tomatoes 1 large packet cheese-flavoured corn chips 2 tablespoons tomato paste 250 g cheddar cheese, grated Salt and pepper Sour cream Handful fresh basil leaves, Did you know roughly chopped 1 avocado, mashed that spag bol is Tomato salsa Australia’s favourite 500 g dried spaghetti meal of all time? 1 cup grated parmesan Method Method Preheat the oven to 180˚C. Place the beans, Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium tomato and garlic in a heat and fry the onion and garlic until blender, and blend until softened. Add the mince and stir mixed but a little chunky. until browned. Add the stock, Spread the corn chips on tomatoes, tomato paste, a pinch a baking tray. Pour the of salt and pepper, and simmer bean mixture over the chips. for 15 minutes. Stir through the Sprinkle the cheese over the top basil. and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from the oven and place in Meanwhile, cook the spaghetti according serving bowls. Serve to the packet instructions. Serve the with a dollop each of spaghetti with mince sauce on top and sour cream, avocado a sprinkle of parmesan. and salsa.

38 39

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 38-39 17/6/10 7:10:55 PM P e a c h M e l b a E d n a S p l i t

Serves 6 Serves 1 Dessert Dames You will need a large saucepan, a blender and You will need a mixing bowl sieve Ingredients Perhaps it’s the big Ingredients 2 scoops vanilla ice-cream frilly skirts or the big 750 ml water Blue food colouring bouffants of our buxom dames that always seem to 250 g caster sugar Red food colouring inspire a dessert. 6 peaches, halved and stones 1 banana removed Chocolate topping 375 g raspberries (fresh or frozen) Crushed nuts 100 g icing sugar Vanilla ice-cream Method Method Scoop the ice-cream into a mixing bowl. Add one drop each of blue and red food colouring Place the water and sugar in a large saucepan and mix well. The ice-cream will turn purple. and heat until the sugar has dissolved and Return to the freezer for at least 15 minutes. the mixture becomes syrupy. Bring to the Split the banana in half lengthways and boil. Carefully drop the peaches into the arrange in a dessert bowl. Take the ice-cream syrup and allow to simmer for 3–5 minutes. out of the freezer and When the peaches are soft, remove from the scoop on top of the pan and place on a plate. Peel off the peach banana pieces. skins and discard, and allow the peaches to Cover in chocolate cool. topping and Dame Nellie Melba was Australia’s first To make the sauce, blend the raspberries sprinkle with internationally acclaimed opera singer in a large swan shaped out of ice. and icing sugar until smooth. Push the sauce It caused quite a stir, and the crushed nuts. way back in the 1890s. When she through a sieve to make it even smoother. performed at the Royal Opera House, dessert has been a hit ever since. in Covent Garden, London, she was A more recent Dame of Australia, To assemble, place two scoops of ice-cream treated to a big fancy dinner. Some Edna, known for her love of possums and two peach halves in each bowl. Pour the people liked to serve custard tarts and gladioli, now has her very own raspberry sauce on top. to opera singers, but legendary French dessert. The Edna Split is named in chef, Auguste Escoffier, enraptured by her honour by yours truly, Ruthie Nellie, served her peaches and cream May.

40 41

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 40-41 17/6/10 7:10:59 PM , Pam s P a v

Serves 6-8 All Over, Pavlova You will need a large baking tray, baking paper, an electric mixer and a spatula

It’s a bit of an Aussie tradition to shorten the name Ingredients of nearly everything. Instead 6 egg whites of Pamela we have Pam and Salt instead of Pavlova we have Pav. 1 1/2 cups caster sugar 1 teaspoon white vinegar

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence 300 ml cream, whipped 1 cup sliced strawberries

The placement of the strawberries Method Preheat the oven to 200˚C. Lightly grease a baking tray and line it with baking paper. Using an electric mixer, beat the egg whites The New Zealanders say they with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form. invented the pavlova. But forget Continue beating, gradually adding the sugar. what they tell you — Add the vinegar and vanilla. Beat until the invented in Perth, theWA, pavwhen was the mixture feels heavy and stiff peaks form. great Russian ballerina, Anna Pavlova, visited Down Under to Spoon the mixture onto the baking tray and strut her stuff. The chef, Herbert use a spatula to form a big round circle. Sachse, from the West Australian Reduce the heat of the oven to 150˚C and bake goldfields, was so impressed with the tutu-wearing, tootsie-twirling for 1½ hours. Don’t open the oven door to peek ballerina, he wanted to celebrate at your pav. If you do, the hot air will escape her beauty with something fluffy Pam whisks and your pav will go flat. Remove the pav from that looked just like her tutu. while hungry oven when it is golden brown on top and allow neighbours pry. to cool on its baking tray. Once cool, decorate with the cream and strawberries.

42 43

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 42-43 17/6/10 7:11:03 PM Index Frogs in the Billabong 16 N Joe Blakes in the Billabong 17 Nachos from Mexico to Mandurah 35 Pam’s Pav 39 O Peach Melba 37 A Oldie 4, 5 Dinky-di Icy Poles 17 adult supervision 4 P Anzac Biscuits 12, 13 drinks 6–7 Pam’s Pav 39 Anzac Day 12 Berry Shake 7 pavlova 38, 39 Auntie Bev’s Rissoles 26 Billy Tea 6, 7 Pavlova, Anna 38 Aussie Chrissie Damper 9 Redback Spider 7 Peach Melba 37 Aussie Meat Pie 23 E Pie Floater 22 Echidna Delight 19 B Pikelets 11 Banana benders Edna Split 37 potatoes see spuds (banana skewers) 17 eggs Prawn Skewers 25 barbeque foods Scrambled Googs 20 pumpkin scones 15 Jimbo’s Jumbo Steaks 25 Esky 16–17 Q Prawn Skewers 25 Everage, Dame Edna 36 Queensland Blue Pumpkin Scones 15 Snags on the Barbie 29 F R Uncle Daz’s Mega BBQ Burger 27 Fair Dinkum Cheese Balls 18 Redback Spider (drink) 7 Berry Shake 7 fish rissoles 26 Beryl’s Bonza Scones 14 You-Beaut Snapper 31 Roo Doo in a Patty Case Billabong Surprise 17 fish and chips 30–31 (chocolate crackles) 15 Billy Loaf 9 Frogs in the Billabong 16 Roo Stew with Bush Tomatoes 33 Billy Tea 6, 7 fruit S biscuits 12–13 Aussie Chrissie Damper 9 sausages 28–29 Anzac Biscuits 12, 13 Banana Benders 17 various kinds of 29 bread Berry Shake 7 scones Bush-Pig Fairy Bread 10 Echidna Delight 19 Beryl’s Bonza Scones 14 damper 8, 9 Edna Split 37 Queensland Blue Pumpkin Scones 15 Aussie Chrissie 9 Pam’s Pav 39 Scrambled Googs (scrambled eggs) 20 Billy Loaf 9 Peach Melba 37 with Cocky’s Joy 9 slang G Swaggie in a Blanket 19 Australian, usage in Stew a golden syrup see Cocky’s Joy Cockatoo 2 burger 27 Great Depression 28 rhyming 17, 22 Bush-Pig Fairy Bread 10 H Snags on the Barbie 29 bush tucker 32–33 Horse doovers (hors d’oeuvres) 18–19 soup Roo Stew with Bush Tomatoes 33 Echidna Delight 19 Pie Floater 22 C Fair Dinkum Cheese Balls 18 Spag Bol from Italy to Ingham chicken 20–21 Swaggie in a Blanket 19 (spaghetti bolognese) 35 Chook Nuggets 21 I spuds 30, 31 chips 30–31 icy poles 17 Chunky Chips 31 chocolate Indigenous Australians 8, 32, 34 how to peel 30 Banana Benders 17 J steaks 25 Roo Doo in a Patty Case jelly 16, 17 Stewed Cockatoo 21 (chocolate crackles) 15 Billabong Surprise 17 Swaggie in a Blanket 19 Chook Nuggets 21 Frogs in the Billabong 16 swagmen 19, 30 Chunky Chips 31 Joe Blakes in the Billabong 17 Cocky’s Joy (golden syrup) 9, 13 T Jimbo’s Jumbo Steaks 25 tea cook’s tools 5 Joe Blakes in the Billabong 17 billy 6, 7 D damper see bread L U Lamington, Lord 11 Uncle Daz’s Mega BBQ Burger 27 Damper with Cocky’s Joy 9 lamingtons 10, 11 utensils see cook’s tools desserts Lord Lamington’s Lamingtons 11 Banana Benders 17 W World War I 12 Billabong Surprise 17 M meat pies 22–23 Dinky-di Icy Poles 17 Y Melba, Dame Nellie 36 You-Beaut Snapper 31 Edna Split 37 44

StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 44-45 17/6/10 7:11:05 PM StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 46-47 17/6/10 7:11:05 PM StewCockatoo_Internals_19.indd 48 17/6/10 7:11:05 PM