Pineapple, topped off with cheese

Friends, Pete and Barbara, lent us this treasured heirloom. They didn't admit to ever having cooked from it. I'm not sure if it was more difficult making these snacks look edible or actually eating them!!!  Anne.

101 Ways to eat it with Coon Cheese, prepared by the Home Economists from the Kraft Kitchens, Kraft Foods Limited 1980 Melbourne

Hawaiian Hottie 

Split an English muffin in half. Toast lightly then spread each half with butter, Spread with tomato paste. Top each half with a slice of cold meat, a pineapple ring and a red pepper ring. Season with salt and pepper. Top with slices of COON Cheese, Place in a moderate oven, cook for 5 minutes or until topping is hot and Cheese begins to melt. Makes 1 serving.

Pineapple and Cheese Delight

Slices of bread spread with MIRACLE WHIP salad dressing, topped with drained pineapple slices, sliced cold meat and COON Cheese.

Tropical Rye

Rye bread spread with MIRACLE WHIP Salad Dressing, topped with sliced cold meat, prepared coleslaw, drained pineapple pieces and finely grated COON Cheese.

Solo Salad

For each serving allow 1 slice each white and brown bread, 1 lettuce leaf, 1 slice cheese, 1 slice cooked meat, 1 small tomato, 1 slice Golden Circle Tropical Pineapple, and a few slices of Golden Circle beetroot. Butter bread, and fill with the meat, cheese and lettuce. 

Cut sandwich diagonally and top each with half a pineapple slice. Serve with tomato and beetroot. You may like to prepare mayonnaise.

Breakfast, lunch and tea

Oriental Breakfast

1 jar Golden Circle Sweet-Sour Sauce, eggs, butter, toast.

Toast sliced bread, butter and spread lightly with Sweet-Sour Sauce. Top with poached or scrambled eggs garnished with chopped parsley.

Just what you might expect from the list of ingredients – scrambled eggs with sweet and sour sauce on toast! 

Pineapple Coleslaw

440g can Golden Circle Pineapple Pieces, 1 sugar-loaf cabbage, ½ cup bottled Italian Liquid dressing, 1 tblspn brown sugar, 1 tblspn brown sugar, 1 tspn lemon juice, ½ tspn salt, ¼ tspn ground black pepper.

Drain pineapple pieces. Wash and trim outside leaves from cabbage. Cut into quarters and remove centre cores. Shred remainder finely. Combine pineapple pieces and cabbage. Blend remaining ingredients together and sprinkle over the cabbage and pineapple. Cover, chill. Toss with 2 forks before serving.

Pineapple Sandwich Snack

440g can Golden Circle Sliced Pineapple, 3 slices bread for each sandwich, cheese, sliced boiled ham or luncheon meat, fruit chutney, butter.

Drain syrup from pineapple. Toast slices of bread one side only. Butter untoasted sides lightly. Cover one slice for each sandwich with slice of ham or luncheon meat, third with fruit chutney topped with slice of pineapple; brush pineapple with melted butter. Brown all under a griller a few minutes. Serve open faced with tomato and olives.

Braised Pocket Steak with Pineapple

440g can Golden Circle Sliced Pineapple, 1 – 1.5 kg topside steak, 2 tblspns plain flour, 2 tblspns butter, 11 ½ cups stock or water, 2 cups herb-flavoured breadcrumb stuffing.

Drain pineapple, chop 1 slice fine and add to breadcrumb stuffing. Cut large pocket in steak and fill with stuffing. Close pocket with small metal skewers. Run steak with plain flour and brown richly in melted butter. Place in casserole, add stock, cover and bake in slow oven (160° C) until steak is tender. Whole potatoes, onions and carrots can be added during the last hour of cooking. Or potatoes can be baked separately. Brown remaining pineapple slices and serve with the steak.

This photo is uninspiring – but it didn’t taste too bad.

Meringue Nests with Pineapple

44og can Golden Circle Pineapple Pieces, 2 egg whites, ½ cup castor sugar, pinch salt, vanilla, coconut.

Drain pineapple pieces, reserving syrup for making sauce. Beat egg whites till frothy then gradually beat in sugar and salt. Beat very stiff. Add vanilla. Shape into nests on foil-covered baking tray and sprinkle with coconut. Bake in slow oven about one hour. At serving time fill with drained pineapple pieces and top with whipped cream. Serve with a clear pineapple sauce. (Makes 3 to 4 servings).

I cheated and bought some meringue nests rather than make them, added fresh mango pieces to the pineapple, forgot about the pineapple sauce and garnished each with a strawberry. Delicious!

Don't worry I didn't subject all these dishes on the family today, not even the most dedicated Ruby Borrowdale follower could eat this much canned pineapple in one day, Anne.

A super snack.

Super Snacks from Ruby Borrowdale's "Golden Circle Tropical Recipe" book.

440g can Golden Circle Sliced Pineapple, drained, 6 slices sandwich bread, 6 slices cheese, 6 steakettes or hamburger patties, prepared mayonnaise, lettuce radish roses.

Toast bread on one side only. Spread untoasted side with mayonnaise, top with a slice of cheese, a lightly browed steakette, then a slice of pineapple. Sprinkle with melted butter and reheat under griller before serving. Serve each on a crisp lettuce leaf and top with a radish (or tomato) rose.