New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-12
ESTHETTC SANDWICHES.
SOMETHING DELICIOUS AND DAINTY

s. 7. Sherman in Table Talk.
TO speak OF an esthetic sandwich sounds almost as
saasass and yet in England the gentieyomen serve
at afternoon tea sandwiches so amDr0Slal thaV uieJ
These dainty delights, SO daphanous that they are
almost ethereal, | tasted for the first time at EihS-
Elmswood House enjoys the distinction Of having
the bestappoined O'Clock tea'table IN all Ehsianu,
which Is no modest distinction In country whe ~
afternoon tea Is such all indispensable adjunct !"
everyday life. ,.s,o.
OF Emswood House, as n novelty to accompany IN. nle
tea,.one recent summer but It proved SO popular 1a
winir and finally became staple, appearing Win the
urn summer and winter year In, year out. o.,oo.
Sch perfect beverage must needs have perletct
accompaniment so, to meet this demand. the esthetc
sandwich invented and, ever since, iashlohaple
England has been eating vioets and roses, cowslPs
and orange blossoms with her daily bread Inc peas
of these blossoms are not puched and laid between
the battered slices no such crude methods could oo.
as distinctly as if the petals themselves were there
and for long time the manner OF procuring TINS eect
was kent secret BY their patrican inventors so that
the sandwiches added to their material deliciousness
the further zest OF mystery. But the secret hnaily
waited abroad. as such secrets subty WIZ, ana a.
the time Of my ElmswOOd visit it had become such
an open one that freely taken into the cold stone
dairy, where Miss Wnnifred and little Gladys I'M
shelves q little pat Of butter wrapped in thinnest
dairy clcth rested bed Of clover blossoms In tine
bottom of a china tureen, and Betty, the maid was
lining the SIDES Of the dish with the same fragrant
blossoms and heaping them on top OF tue pat When
was crushed down upon them and the vessel was
carried to the huge, cool gothic cellar 10 await the
ornamental mcal' as Mr.. OIphant terms the O'CLOCK
Here the butter busted itself absorbing fragrance
Ike bee in the clover; while beside 1t In stone Jar
was the golden sted loaf OF bread, also wrapped In
film Of dairy cloth and packed snugly In nest OF
cloverbossoms. Here 1t Kept cool and moist while Il
bOde its time When that time came 1t was cut WIN
keen blade into slices thin that they were lacy and
daphanous and had 10 be buttered on the loaf
They to the like the breath Of calves and
the scent OF new-mOwn hay at dew-fa With such an
adjunct the wonder ceases that hot afternoon ten IN
summer can seem so delightful to the English; for
all through green June il IS drank with clover sand
witches day. rose the next violet the next and
anon honey locust blended with orange-bOSsOm and
tasting like some exquisite ideaZcd honey. Earlier In
tho there have been cherry blossom ana apple
blossom buffers and cowslip and nasturum the two
latter being tie most pUngent and pquant Of ALL and
as they very appetZing they are great favoriteS
with the gentlemen No flowers are used with these
orange blossoms that the bees have taught us to
relish in honey; roses aud vIolets that confectionery
have taught TO relish III gaces the cowslp, which
Goldsmith and the Howift6 have. taught US to
relish in the hOmemad9 wine OF old time fiction; ana
pickles becomes most unctous in the esth0tic sand
wich This last flavor was tho fayorite, par excel
who would drop in hungry and thirsty after cricket or
Rugby, or tennis, for sip Of ElmswOOd House SOU
turtum dorpnOes for the shape Of this delicate sand
wich is a small obong. And under these dominoes"
such distinct nOwery favors Turk IN such compete
disguise that the little feast might be called the
~NasQuc Of Flowers" have seen the uninltiated
The aroma and then stare IN bailed perplexity, like
the king did at the appledumpl!ng, when he was
moved to cry his historic query: But how, now,
pray, got tho apple in ?" . , !,
II was one OF the pretty cOncets Of the Elmswood
uonsc ten table TO hav0 the various hamoisleather
teacoseys embroidered with the different flowers uieh
ms lavorngs and clover day to use the one win
the clover spray upon It, on cowslp day the coWshp
cosey, on locust day the locust cosey, and r so
on through the whole repertory OF flowers. Inc
mvstifc1 were often archly assured that the
fragrance m the sandwiches proceeded by some falry
,rtcherv from the flowers the cosey This havOrlng
~ htter was an open secret among the French peas
ants long before it discovered by the English
natrcan and has made the butter-sals OF inc ParlS
markets picturesque for centuries.