Looking for the perfect lunchbox recipe? To celebrate Vegemite’s 90th birthday we’ve got a tasty Cheese and Vegemite Scrolls recipe….
Ingredients
• 3 cups self raising flour
• pinch of salt
• 50g butter
• 375ml milk
• 1 – 2 tablespoons Vegemite
• 200g grated tasty cheese
Method
- 1. Sift flour and salt into a bowl then rub through butter. Stir in enough milk to make soft dough. Knead gently on a lightly floured surface, and then roll to form a 40 cm x 25 cm rectangle.
- Spread the Vegemite over the dough then sprinkle over 3/4 of the cheese. Roll up along the long side to enclose the cheese. Cut 10 x 4cm pieces from the roll and place close together, cut side up on a greased baking tray.
- Sprinkle with the remaining cheese and bake in a hot oven 220ºC for 15-20 minutes or until cooked and golden.
Vegemite Facts:
- Every second on average there are 39 serves of Vegemite being consumed somewhere in the world.
- Every 3 seconds, there are, on average, two jars of Vegemite sold in Australia.
- If you lined all of the pieces of toast Vegemite is spread on each year, they could wrap around the world more than 3.5 times.
- In the space of you reading this article, over 2,300 serves of Vegemite have been eaten.
- Every three months, Vegemite is spread on enough pieces of toast that if you lined them all up on the mainland coastline of Australia, they would reach the total length.