If the slices of bread have to be spread with butter or with a paste
it should be done before they are cut off. The slices should not be
cut thicker than an eighth of an inch. When butter is used there must
just be enough of it for us to know in some mysterious fashion that
it is there. Every scrap of a sandwich should be eatable. Sandwiches
usually are served on folded napkins, and arranged in circles, so
that one overlaps the other. It is well to lay a damp napkin over the
sandwiches, if they are not wanted immediately, in order to keep them
moist. To make superior sandwich butter, work one cupful of butter
in a basin with a clean and dry wooden spoon until soft; then add by
degrees half a cupful of whipped cream, seasoning of salt and mustard,
and put it in a cool place until required.
Egg and Anchovy Sandwiches
3 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
10 anchovies
3 hard-cooked eggs
2 tablespoonfuls grated cheese
1 teaspoonful curry powder
1/2 teaspoonful lemon juice
Salt to taste
Brown bread
Watercress
Bone anchovies, put them in basin or mortar with eggs, cheese, and
one tablespoonful Crisco, and pound all well together. Mix remaining
Crisco with curry powder, lemon juice, and salt to taste. Cut some
thin brown bread, spread with curry mixture and layer of anchovy
paste. Lay another piece of bread on top, and cut into fancy shapes.
Arrange on a lace paper and garnish with watercress.
Sufficient for fifteen sandwiches.
Fried Egg Sandwiches
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
4 hard-cooked eggs
2 tablespoonfuls cream
Salt, pepper, and red pepper to taste
2 rasped rolls
Fritter batter
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Cut hard-cooked eggs free from shells into slices and pound with
Crisco and cream to a paste. Season with salt, pepper, and red pepper.
Cut rolls into thin slices, butter them, spread them with the mixture
and make into small sandwiches. Dip each sandwich into some prepared
fritter batter, and fry to golden brown in hot Crisco. Drain and serve
hot.
Sufficient for twelve sandwiches.
Hudson Sandwiches
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1/2 lb. cooked meat
6 stoned olives
1 teaspoonful capers
2 hard-cooked eggs
Salt and pepper to taste
Crisp lettuce leaves
12 picked shrimps
Parsley
Brown bread
Put through food chopper cooked meat, olives, capers, and yolks of
hard cooked eggs, then add Crisco and seasonings. Spread mixture
on slices of buttered brown bread, and stamp them out with a round
cutter; sprinkle surfaces of sandwiches with chopped whites of eggs.
Dish up in circular fashion. Put lettuce in center with shrimps and
a few sprigs of parsley. This sandwich quite repays the trouble of
making.
Sufficient for twenty sandwiches.
Pimiento Cheese Sandwiches
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful diced cheese
1 teaspoonful cornstarch
6 tablespoonfuls milk
1 teaspoonful salt
1 can pimientoes
Paprika to taste
Graham bread
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