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ONE or other women’s organisa tions in the South Pacific Islands is always producing a recipe book.
They vary in objective, price and quality.
The latest is Entertaining in Papua and New Guinea, produced by the Boroko branch of the P-NG Country Women’s Association and selling at $l.OO post free, from Box 1222, Boroko. We confidently recommend it.
It’s a no-nonsense cook book of 100 pages, prepared by practical territory wives, using ingredients normally obtainable in the territory.
You could in fact get the ingredients anywhere in the South Pacific.
Here we have commonsense recipes for savouries, soups, fish, poultry, meat, etc., with a special section on the kind of things to have with your coffee, and six life-saving pages on emergency meals (tuna and spaghetti bake, beef hotpot, curry from tinned meat or fish, quick Spanish rice, pork fritters).
There are some local dishes (such as anisu—cooking banana and meat) but wisely these have been kept to a minimum, for this book is not for those seeking exotic new taste thrills.
On the other hand, local foods are woven into the general recipes—such things as kaukau patties and baked papaw. Under the drinks section there is chilled mango delite (take one dozen mangoes and peel) and verandah punch (oranges, lemons, freshly-made tea, soda water, ginger ale), plus others with an alcoholic kick. This little book could well be standard issue for all young New Guinea patrol officers not yet pre pared to invest in a wife.