Sardines and Anchovy Toast

Ingredients

• three anchovies
• one teaspoonful of anchovy paste
• one ounce of butter
• a seasoning of cayenne pepper
• gyrated nutmeg
• thin slices of bread
• some sardines

Method

1. 1

   Pound anchovies with anchovy paste, butter, cayenne, and nutmeg.

2. 2

   Toast bread, cut into pieces, wash sardines, and lay fillets on top of each piece.

3. 3

   Spread anchovy paste on toast, arrange in couples, and garnish with chopped hard-boiled eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 66. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Sardines and Anchovy Toast. Clean well three anchovies, put them into a mortar with one teaspoonful of an- chovy paste, one ounce of butter and a seasoning of cayenne pepper and gyrated nut- meg and pound them to a smooth paste, then pass it through a fine hair sieve. Tout SIDE DISHES. 141 me thin slices of bread and cut them into pieces about the breadth and length of a •dine. Wash some sardines

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