Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-08
Sunday Sandwiches


Sunday Sandwiches
Are popular for the reason that they may
be prepared beforehand and are SO much
of an addition to the tea table on a Sum
| day afternoon or evening. when ones
friends drop in, or when the family do
not assemble for the regular meal, but
just drop in for a cup Of tea and snack
Sunday is the one evening of the week
| when the formal dinner Is not served and
the sandwich takes the place of meat at
the informal meal or lunch. sandwich
| may or may not appeal to the appetite,
for 1t all depends upon the way 1t is pre-
pared and its appearance when 1t IL ready
to serve.
| There are many methods of making
sandwiches. There is one safe way, and
| that is simple as we'll as effective Take q
sharp knife and cut away the end crust
| OF the loaf, then spread on the butter be-
fore slicing thinly from the loaf: on the
buttered slices place the filing, and on
| this thin slice OF bread. Cut away the
crusts and with quick stroke of sharp
| knife divide the whole into two or three
| slices, according to the size Of the orig
| fnal slice. A sandwich an inch wide by
| two or three inches long always appears
appetfzing. Always cream the butter used
/
| them fresh If prepared an hour or two
before serving, wiring out a napkin In
| fresh water and cover the tray and keep
In cool place. White, graham or brown
4 bread may be used.
Brown Bread Sandwiches-Steam the
| brown bread before spreading with but
ter and cutting in the usual way. For
/ filling use grated cheese and finely chop
| ped Kernels of nuts, well sailed.
| Chicken Sandwiches.-With chopping
| knife mince the white meat of cold chick
/ en-, season with salt and pepper and
| meisten with any suitable salad dressing
| or with chicken stock.
Anchovy Sandwiches.-By rubbing with
| a spoon make a paste of the yolks of
| hard-boiled eggs. Season with essence
OF anchovy and moisten with soft butter
Spread between thin slices of buttered
| bread.
| Egg Sandwiches-Mince the whites of
hard boiled eggs in the chopping bowl
| and afterward mince the yolks in the
same way. Mix the whites and yolks and
rub through a sieve. Soften to the right
consistency for spreading upon thin slices
of buttered bread by using salad mayon-
| naise or cream dressing.
| Lobster Internationally choD
the meat of fresh lobster and season with
| salt, mustard, tabasco and lemon juice.
| Spread on a fresh lettuce leaf and place
| between buttered slices of bread.
Mushroom Sandwiches. - Mince boiled
! mushrooms and cold beef Cor tongue) to-
gether, and spread between thin slices of
| buttered bread. Slightly coat the filling
with French mustard
Caviare NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the salt
| ed roe of the sturgeon, can be bought of
any first-class grocer. Spread the cavfare
! on thin slices of buttered rye bread On
some occasions finely chopped onion is
| placed on the caviare.
! Fig Sandwiches.-Mince bowl of extra
| quality figs; add q small quantity of wa
| ter cook in double boiler until a paste is
| formed, then add a few drops of lemon
| juice. Cool the mixture and spread on
thin slices of buttered bread; sprinkle
with finely chopped English walnuts and
| cover with pieces of buttefed bread
Favorite Cakes
Pork Cake.-Chop together one pound
each of fat salt pork and raisins; pour
over these one pint of boiling water, add
two cups of sugar, one cup molasses and
two eggs well beaten: mix thoroughly,
then sift in nearly five cups of sifted
-four, two teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, one
teaspoonful each of cloves, mace and
soda. Beat thoroughly and bake in two
tins, lined with buttered paper, about one
hour A slow oven is needed
Date Muff1ns.-Remove the stones from
half a pound of dates and chop them;
beat them gradually into one-fourth a
cup of butter, creamed, and mix with a
well beaten egg. Alternately add one cup
Of milk and one pint of flour sffted, with
three level teaspoonfuls of baking pow
der; beat thoroughly and bake nearly
twenty minutes in a well-buttered muffin
pan or shallow tin pan.
Walnut Cake.-One cup Of sugar, four
tablespoonfuls of butter, seven of sweet
milk, one teaspoonful of corn starch, one
and one-half cups of flour, three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, the whites
of two eggs, well beaten, and one cup of
chopped walnut meats. Mix the corn
starch and baking powder together, stir
the sugar and butter well together, add
milk, then -four and whites OF eggs. Beat
thoroughly and then put in the walnuts,
well Toured Bake in quick oven and
sprinkle half the nuts on top when iced.
Tit Tat Toe Cake-Beat four eggs light,
then add a cream made by beating two and
one-half cups Of sugar and one cup butter
with one cup of sweet milk. adding the milk
gradually to creaned butter and sugar, a
large pinch of salt. two teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder. sifted with two and one
half cups of flour; divide the dough into
three parts; to one part add half cup of
raisins, stoned and chopped, half cup of
currants. half teaspoonful cinnamon or nut
meg: for second layer add two tablespoon
fuls grated chocolate. one teaspoonful of
vanilla. The last layer. or light one, should
be favored with lemon; when baked put
the chocolate layer on bottom, fruit next,
light layer on top: frost the top, but not
the sides.
Ice Cream Cake.-Make a good sponge
cake bake half an inch thick in jelly pans,
and let them get perfectly cold; take a pint
thickest sweet cream. beat until 1t looks
IKE ice cream, make sweet and flavor with
vanilla: blanch and chop pound of al
monds stir into cream and put thick be-
tween each layer. This is the queen of all
cakes.
Rice Cake.-One cupful of butter, two of
sugar. two and one-fourth of rice flour, six
eggs, the Juice and rind of one lemon. Beat
the butter to a cream. then gradually beat
in the sugar and add the lemon. Beat the
whites and yokes separately and add them
to the beaten sugar and butter. Add also
the rice flour. Pour into shallow pan to
the depth Of about two inches. Bake from
thirty-five to Aefty-ive minutes in moder-
ate oven.
Naples Biscuit-Beat eight eggs light: add
to them one pound of fine white sugar and
one pound of sifted wheat -four; flavor with
half TEASPOON of salt and essence of
lemon or arrange flower water: beat 1t until
ii rises In bubbles, bake in quick oven
Dominos-Cut pieces of cake into oblong
pieces size of dominos, dip in plain white
frosting, and when cold line and dot with
melted chocolate. These are pretty for chill
dren's parties.
Yorkshire Tea cakes.-six handouts of