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Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book...

1924

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Presented as published in 1924. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
How to Make It. Slice the bread and cut it out with a round patty cutter; spread it with butter and anchovy paste mixed. Save one oyster for each sandwich; the rest chop; spread it on the sandwich; chop half of the shrimps, leaving the even-sized ones for decoration. Put the oysters on a broiler and glaze them with the chaudfroid sauce. [See Chaudfroid Mayonnaise Sauce]. Decorate each oyster with a star of truffle and then glaze the star with some aspic; put a row of the chopped shrimps all around the sandwich that has been seasoned with pepper, salt, and some lemon juice; in the center put the oysters. Stir the butter to a cream; put it in a paper bag with a very small hole and with a strip of stirred butter decorate all around on top of the shrimp in scallops. Arrange them in the form of a ring on a platter; put a bunch of water cress in the center and garnish with the unpeeled shrimps all around. Serve before the soup. Shrimp Sandwich a la Quist Sandwich de Crevettes a la Quist For eight sandwiches take sixteen slices of bread, a half cup of butter, a pound of cooked shrimps, one teaspoonful of anchovy paste, three tablespoonfuls of caviar, cayenne pepper and salt. How to Make It. Cut the bread out with a medium biscuit cutter; spread them with butter that has been mixed with the anchovy paste; chop part of the shrimps and mix it with the butter; spread this a quarter inch of thickness on top of the sandwiches, and on top of that put the other bread with the buttered side up. Peel even-sized shrimps [if they are too large split them in halves lengthwise], put them on a broiler and glaze with the chaudfroid sauce. Supply two shrimps for each sandwich; put them on top of the sandwiches meeting, and all around decorate a ribbon of stirred butter through a fancy tube, and in the center fill with caviar. Decorate the shrimps with a narrow thread of the sauce that has been colored with butter coloring. Arrange them in the form of a ring on a platter with parsley in the center and garnish MRS. ERICSSON HAMMOND’S COOK BOOK 23 with lemon and unpeeled shrimps all around. Serve before the soup. Shrimp Anchovy Sandwiches a la Hammond Sandwiches de Crevettes aux Anchois & la Hammond One pound of cooked shrimps, six slices of bread, two table¬ spoons of butter, one teaspoonful of anchovy paste, cayenne pepper, salt, juice of a half lemon, and three peppersShrimp Anchovy Sandwiches a la Hammond. Howto Make It. Stir the butter to a cream; chop part of the shrimps; the rest save for decoration. Cut the bread out with a round patty cutter and spread it with butter and anchovy paste mixed, and with chopped peppers; cut even-sized green peppers in rings about a half inch in height; put a ring of it on each sandwich and fill with the shrimps; flavor with pepper, salt, and some lemon juice. Decorate with stirred butter all around and on the top, and with truffles; put a handle of green pepper in each. Arrange them in the form of a ring on a platter; garnish with parsley in the center and with unpeeled shrimps all around. Serve before the soup. Shrimp Filling. Put two yolks of eggs in a cup; stir them; add pepper, salt, and lemon juice; mix this with the half cup of chopped shrimps; last add a half cup of whipped cream. Shrimp in Pastry a la Avondale Crevettes en Patisserie a V Avondale Shrimp in Pastry a la Avondale