Ham Sandwiches

Ingredients

• a tin-loaf of bread
• a sufficient quantity of butter
• 1 teaspoonful of mustard
• 6@z. of lean cooked Ham
• a small quantity of cayenne
• a few drops of carmine

Method

1. 1

   Cut bread into slices, butter half with mustard mixture.

2. 2

   Layer Ham and buttered bread, trim edges, cut into shapes, and arrange on a napkin.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Ham Sandwiches. — (1) Cut off as many slices of bread from a tin-loaf as are required, having them about |in. thick. Take a sufficient quantity of butter to butter half the slices of bread, and work into it made mustard in the proportion of 1 teaspoonful of mustard to 2 teaspoonfuls of butter. Cut some slices of Ham and trim them, then butter half the slices of bread with the mixture of butter and mustard, and butter the rest of the bread with plain butter ; take a slice of bread-and-butter, cover it with a slice of Ham, place For details respecting Culinary Processes, Utensils, Hams — continued. a slice of bread spread with the mixture of mustard and butter on top of this, and press them together. When all the sandwiches are made, pile up evenly one on top of the other as many as can easily be cut through, trim the edges even, removing the crust, and cut the sandwiches into oblong pieces about 4Jin. long and l£in. broad. Cut some others into squares, rounds, and triangles (see Fig. 923), lay a napkin on a dish, and arrange the sandwiches neatly on it. (2) Cut some very thin slices of bread from a tin loaf, butter them, trim off the crust, and put some thin slices of Ham on half of the slices, spread a little mustard over, lay the remaining slices over, buttered side next the Ham, cut them through into pieces 2^in. by ljin., arrange them on a folded napkin on a dish, and serve. (3) Put the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs into a mortar with 6@z. of lean cooked Ham, pound them well, add a dust of cayenne, 6oz. of butter, and a few drops of carmine

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.