Sandwich Dressing
From For the comfort of the family, 1914
This dressing keeps in a cool place and can be used later in the week.
Presented as published in 1914. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from For the comfort of the family (1914) by Josephine Story, page 10. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
one tablespoon of salt, one-half tablespoon of mustard, one heaping tablespoon of sugar, one tablespoon 50 COMFORT OF THE FAMILY of flour thoroughly. Add the yolks of two eggs, slightly beaten, three tablespoons melted butter, three-quarters cup of milk and a quar- ter of a cup of vinegar. Cook in double boiler, stirring constantly till mixture thickens. Strain and cooL This dressing keeps in a cool place, and some of it is used later in the week with cold fish, which, by the addition of the coarser leaves of the lettuce shredded, becomes not only a delicious salad but an ornamental one as well, as it is garnished with egg. 'Tis marvelous what dignity a hard-boiled egg, when admin- istered with imagination, will lend to the humblest culinary effort. But to return to luncheon. For dessert we have cake or tarts, or, better still, filled cookies which are proclahned by strangers and inti- mates alike toothsome morsels. To make them take one cup of sugar, one-half cup of short- ening — chicken fat is excellent — one eggy one- half cup of milk, three and one-half cups of flour with which has been sifted two teaspoons of cream of tartar and one teaspoon of soda, one teaspoon of vanilla. Roll the dough into a thin sheet and cut with cooky cutter. Spread SIMPLE AND SANE SUNDAY 51 one round with filling and place another over it. Bake in hot oven. The filling may be of jelly, jam, or it is delectable when made of raisins thus : Take one cup of chopped raisins, one-half cup of sugar, one-half cup of water, two teaspoons lemon juice; one tablespoon of flour
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