Pineapple dried fruit roll

 The Food Saver's A-Z: The Essential Cornersmith Kitchen Companion, Alex Elliott-Howery and Jaimee Edwards, Australia 2022

1 cup dried fruit, (I used pineapple, raisins, prunes, cranberries) ¼ cup nuts (I used walnuts & almonds), 1/3 cup grated choc or cacao nibs – blend to paste, roll into a log, roll in desiccated coconut, wrap in baking paper, store in fridge. Cut into slices. OR roll into balls, then coconut OR add cinnamon or favourite spices. Store in airtight container in fridge 2-3 weeks.

Easy steamed pudding with pineapple

Thanks to Vicky from http://unusualcoleslaw.blogspot.com for this very light, delicious pudding recipe, Anne

Steamed Pudding (No butter, eggs, sugar or flour)

  

1 cup mixed fruit (I used crystallised pineapple, crystallised ginger, sultanas, goji berries)

1 cup breadcrumbs

1/2 teaspoon carb.soda, mixed in 1/2 cup milk

1 mashed banana

Method: Put all in basin, steam 3 hours. Delicious.

Source: A Cooks' Tour of Recipes. Published for the Adelaide University S.R.C. [Students' Representative Council]. (Adelaide: Commercial Publications of South Australia, 1955), p.62.

Cool pineapples!

I never expected a pineapple flavoured packet of Kool-Aid for Christmas! 

Thanks Ky and Krystal! 

I took your advice and watched a couple of how-to-youtubes which encouraged a greater addition of sugar to the packet instructions hmmmmm.

1. Tip the Kool-Aid from the packet into a jug.

2. Add sugar, packet says 1 cup.

3. Add 2 quarts/1.89 litres cold water and ice and stir.

Thanks for the straws Les.

And if you really, really like Kool-Aid you could make it in a giant container 

like this one spotted by Krystal.

Krystal pretending to drink from a plastic pineapple!

Ann spotted this interesting container in an Op Shop - not sure what it's for. 

Lotion dispenser???

Decorated bottles spotted in a cheap shop somewhere.

A tea infuser, thanks Sal. 

Some biscuits and preserved pineapple products from India, found in a grocery.

A cute cushion Jane found on the net.

Love the baggage tag Donna, now I just need the tickets, Anne.

No Cook Pineapple Marshmallow Fruit Cake

Family Favourites with currants, sultanas, seeded raisins, c1950s Melbourne, Published by The Australian Dried Fruits Association as a service to housewives

Marshmallow Fruit Cake

(No cooking)

½ cup sultanas; 1 cup seeded raisins; ½ cup evaporated milk; 3 tblspn orange juice; 16 finely cut marshmallows; 4 dozen Uneeda (I used 1 ½ packets of Milk Arrowroot); ¼ tspn each cinnamon and nutmeg; ¾ cup walnut pieces; 1/3 cup crystallised pineapple; ½ cup glacé cherries; 2 tblspn grated orange peel

Into a bowl put evaporated milk, marshmallows and orange juice. Crush biscuits to fine crumbs and place in bowl with remaining ingredients, including pineapple and cherries which have been finely chopped.

Add milk mixture to dry ingredients, mix till all crumbs are moistened, press firmly into tin, decorate with further cherries, raisins and walnuts and cover tin tightly.

Chill for 2 days in refrigerator before slicing and keep in a cool place.

More pineapple meat balls

Family Favourites with currants, sultanas, seeded raisins, c1950s Melbourne, Published by The Australian Dried Fruits Association as a service to housewives

Fruit Meat Balls

¾ Seeded Raisins soaked in 2 cups water overnight; ½ cup milk; 1 slice bread; 900g minced steak; 1 egg; 1/ tspn salt, pepper to taste; 2 tblspn salad oil or shortening

Sauce: 2 cups liquid in which Raisins were soaked; ¼ Seeded Raisins; 1 medium-sized can pineapple chunks; ¼ cup chopped green capsicum; ¼ cup sugar; 1 tblspn soya sauce; 1 ½ tblspn cornflour; ¼ cup wine vinegar

Crumble bread and pour milk over to soften.

Combine meat, ¾ cup Raisins, beaten egg, salt, pepper.

Add bread-milk mixture and blend well.

With wet fingers form into balls, brown in hot oil, shaking pan frequently so they will keep their round shape.

Simmer about 5 minutes liquid in which Raisins soaked, pineapple chunks, and their syrup, sugar, vinegar and soya sauce.

Blend cornflour with a little water and stir into hot liquid.

Simmer, stirring constantly, until sauce has thickened.

Add browned meatballs and simmer 30 minutes or until meat balls are tender.

All spoon measurements are rounded.

The loaves and the pineapples

Family Favourites with currants, sultanas, seeded raisins, c1950s Melbourne. Published by The Australian Dried Fruits Association as a service to housewives.

Sultana and Pineapple Loaf

1 cup sultanas; 1 tblspn butter; 1 beaten egg; ¼ cup sugar; ¾ cup milk; ½ cup crushed drained pineapple; 2 cups flour; 3 level tspns baking powder; ¼ tspn salt

Sift flour, salt and baking powder three times. Cream butter and sugar, add egg and beat well. Stir in milk and dry ingredients, then pineapple and sultanas. Place in greased loaf tin and bake in a moderate oven for 1 to 1 ¼ hours.

I discovered this lovely stove at a recent garage sale, in an original 1952 kitchen. I returned the next day with morning tea so I could take a photo! I hope the new owners don't want to renovate, Anne.

The Australian Women’s Weekly presents . . . Cakes for all occasions from our Leila Howard Test Kitchen 1971

Cherry Fruit Cake

“With colourful cherries, fruit, and crystallised pineapple, this cake keeps well; it can be made 2 weeks in advance.”

250g butter or substitute; 1 cup castor sugar; 1 tspn grated lemon rind; ½ tspn vanilla; 2 tblspn rum or brandy; 4 eggs; 250g glace cherries; 100g sultanas; 100g seeded raisins; 100g crystallised pineapple; 2 ½ plain flour; 1 tspn baking powder; ¼ tspn salt; ¼ cup milk

Cream butter and sugar with vanilla and lemon rind until soft, white and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each. Halve cherries. Fold in fruit and rum. Fold in sifted dry ingredients alternately with milk. Turn into 20cm round cake tin lined with greased paper. Bake in moderate oven 1 ½ hours or until cooked when tested. Cool in tine on wire rack.