NOVEL SANDWICHES

Shannon News, 24 January 1928, Page 3

NOVEL SANDWICHES

The sandwich habit is growing, and they form the principal lunch and supper dish of many busy women. Easy to eat, they make the perfect meal on a tray. Sandwiches, salad, and coffee, make a pleasant, well-bal-anced supper.

Always prepare sandwiches on si damp cloth, and if each layer is covered with oil paper they can be made the, niglit before, without losing any of their freshness. The butter, should always be cream ed, so that it goes on the bread even ly and smoothly. The bread itself can be cut >#' rounds, squares, oblongs, and>lri angles for the sake of variety, A very popular sand wich is made to resemble an open jam-tart, the bread being cut in rounds, covered with "a meat or cheese filling, and grounded by blobs of cream cheese to look like

<. pastry. If the ham is pounded in a mortar and mixed wj# mayonnaise, you will have a mope appetising filling. can bo made by sheading rounds of bread with savbutter—butter creamed and mixed with anchovy paste, egg-yolk, parsley .etc.; then get slim strips of an chovy or oljve and decorate them in " the same way that open jam tarts are with pastry strips. • For variety, add chopped sweet pickles to meat sandwiches, and mix chicken paste with mayonnaise .and nuts with . raisins, figs and dates, pounding all together in a mortar. Roll sandwiches are more unusual than the ordinary kind. Get a stale sandwich loaf, remove the crust, and cut a slice from the entire length of the loaf. Spread with butter and chosen filling and roll very carefully, pressing it to keep its shape, and wrapping tightly in greased paper and a damp cloth when finished.

When you are ready to eat it, get a sharp knife and cut the sandwich roll into slices. These are excellent for picnics. They are different from the usual kind, and look like cakes.