Category Archives: 1950’s

fancy cheese on crackers

Cookie Press Cheese Appetizers

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Cheese Appetisers, originally published in the Mirro Cooky Press instruction and recipe booklet c1950 (I figured I’d spell appetisers both ways to keep everyone happy :P)

Ingredients

Cream cheese, at least 250gm or 8 1/2oz

Crackers or toast cut into fancy shapes

Optional decorations – food colouring

stuffed olives

paprika

 Method

Mix the cream cheese until it’s soft. Add a few drops of food colouring if you like.

Put the cheese into your cookie press and add the disc of your choice.

Press the cheese shapes onto a baking tray that is not non-stick and sprinkle with paprika.

Put in the fridge for a couple of hours to set.

Using a flexible knife, remove the cheese shapes from the tray (see the video for the technique) and put each one on a cracker.

Garnish with a slice of stuffed olive or dried fruit.

Pumpkin soup form the 1950's

Pumpkin Soup

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Pumpkin Soup. A creamy, warming soup perfect for Winter
Originally published in the Sydney Morning Herald, July 24th 1952

Ingredients

2 medium sized potatoes, peeled and chopped

2 stalks of celery, chopped

1 large onion, chopped

2 cups of pumpkin or orange winter squash. Chopped.

570ml or just over 19oz milk. You don’t need to chop that.

3 tsp plain flour (US all purpose flour)

Salt and pepper to taste

A pinch of nutmeg

Method

Put all of your chopped vegetables into a large saucepan.

Cover all of it with cold water.

Simmer on the stove until everything is soft.

Drain off the water and blend.

Take the flour and put it in a bowl. Add a little of the milk and mix into a paste.

Pour in the rest of the milk and stir thoroughly.

Pour the milk and flour mixture into the vegetables and stir over a low heat until it thickens.

Season with salt, pepper and nutmeg.

Serve with a dollop of sour cream or little squares of toast floating on the top.