Put cheese into double boiler, add Crisco, cornstarch, milk, salt, and
paprika to taste and stir and cook until smooth, then add pimientoes
cut into small pieces. Spread between buttered slices of graham bread.
Sufficient for twenty-five sandwiches.
Rice Sandwiches
1 tablespoonful Crisco
1/2 cupful rice
1 sprig parsley
1 blade mace
1 strip lemon peel
2 tablespoonfuls chopped cooked liver
2 tablespoonfuls chopped cooked ham
Salt and pepper to taste
Bread
Boil rice in plenty of boiling salted water, add parsley, mace, and
lemon peel. When quite tender strain off water, take out parsley,
mace, and lemon, and stir into the rice, liver, Crisco, ham, and
seasonings. Cut an even number of slices of bread, spread mixture when
cold on one-half, and cover with remaining slices of bread. Trim and
cut into diamond shapes.
Sufficient for twenty sandwiches.
Sardine Sandwiches
2 tablespoonfuls melted Crisco
1 dozen sardines
1 tablespoonful whipped cream
1 tomato
Salt, pepper, and paprika to taste
Lettuce leaves
Slices of brown or white bread
Bone and skin the sardines, then rub through sieve, add cream, Crisco,
pulp of tomato and seasonings and mix well. Spread mixture between
slices of brown or white bread and butter, stamp out in rounds, in
center of each round force a row of whipped cream seasoned with salt
and red pepper, place small stamped out leaves of lettuce round the
cream.
Sufficient for twelve sandwiches.
Tomato Sandwiches
2 tablespoonfuls Crisco
1 cupful water
1/2 cupful vinegar
2 eggs well beaten
1 teaspoonful salt
1 teaspoonful mustard
1 tablespoonful flour
1-1/2 tablespoonfuls sugar
Few grains red pepper
Firm ripe tomatoes
Bread
Whipped cream
Mix sugar, flour, salt, mustard and red pepper together, add eggs,
vinegar, Crisco, and water and cook in double boiler until thick,
stirring all the time. To every tablespoonful of dressing add equal
quantity of whipped cream. Skin and slice tomatoes very thin, dip
slices into dressing and place between thin slices of buttered bread.
Cut into finger shaped pieces.
Sufficient for thirty sandwiches.
Tomato and Horseradish Sandwiches
1 tablespoonful Crisco
1/4 cupful grated horseradish
1 tomato
Bread
1/4 cupful mayonnaise
Salt and paprika to taste
Parsley
Mix Crisco, horseradish, and mayonnaise together. Skin and slice
tomato, sprinkle with salt and paprika. Spread thin slices of bread
and butter with Crisco mixture, and put sliced tomato between, cut
into fancy shapes and garnish with parsley.
Sufficient for ten sandwiches.
PASTRIES
[Illustration]
There are two principal divisions, within which all varieties may be
included, viz:
1. Short or plain pastries.
2. Flaky pastries.
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