Ethel Web is a writer and past President of the Australian Fellowship of Women Writers. Her first visit to Boddington was to conduct a Workshop in Creative Writing. For those who attended it was a very memorable experience and a lot of fun. Ethel has also led a book discussion for us, choosing John le Caré’s “The Little Drummer Girl”.
Ethel writes: I confess I’ve been stumped. It’s ages since the family was home and I did real family cooking. The problem is that I like mice food, but hate to spend a lot of time cooking when I could be reading or writing. I’ve always been this way, so it’s not new. Also when my husband was alive he used to like to take the family on fishing expeditions and we’d come home late, cold and famished and they’d all sit down immediately at the table and say “What’s for dinner?” Before you’d even taken off your wet coat.
Perhaps a couple of my quickies.
Corn Chowder
Ingredients
1 rasher bacon
1 potato
1 onion
1 tin corn kernels
1 tin cream of celery soup
1 tin evaporated milk
Method
Dice the bacon and cook until crisp. Put aside to drain. Peel and dice potato and onion and cook gently two minutes in bacon fat. Add the liquid from the tin of corn and cook gently about ten minutes. Add the corn and the tin of cream of celery soup undiluted and heat thoroughly. Add the evaporated milk, reheat and serve with bacon sprinkled over the top.
Marvellous with lots of fresh, crusty bread and lashings of butter.
Orange Ambrosia
Ingredients
Oranges
Sugar
Dessicated Coconut
Method
Peel the oranges and slice thinly. Arrange in a glass dish with sugar and coconut sprinkled between the layers and on top. Chill and serve.
