Favourite Old Fashioned Sandwiches

Recipe from an old book in the 1960s......

Sardine Sandwiches:

Ingredients :

1/2   sandwich loaf
2  sardines (in tomato sauce)
**(this means the smallest can)
1/4  cucumber
1/2  tabsp. chopped onion
1/2  lime
butter, salt, pepper, parsley


1.  Prepare the sandwich filling.
Chop the onion finely and squeeze a little lime juice over it.
Wash and slice the cucumber thinly.
Remove the bones from the sardines and flake the fish.
Mix the chopped onion, salt, pepper, and enough sardine gravy to the flaked
fish to get  a creamy filling.
2.  Slice and butter the bread thinly and put them in pairs.(8-10 slices)
3. Divide the filling according to the number of sandwiches to be made.
4. Spread the filling on every other slice of bread.
5. Arrange the cucumber slices over the filling and close the sandwich.
6. Put 2 or 3 sandwiches one on top of the other and press them firmly together.
7. Trim off all the crust and cut sandwiches into the desired shape.
8. Garnish the sandwiches with a sprig of parsley and serve the sandwiches neatly.



Egg Sandwiches  :


Ingredients

1/2  sandwich loaf
2 eggs
1/4  cucumber
1-2 teaspoon mayonnaise
butter, salt
pepper, parsley


1.  Boil the eggs till they are hard boiled.
Then cool them in cold water.
 2.  Prepare  the sandwich filling:
a)  Wash and chop up or slice the cucumber thinly.
b)  Shell the eggs and mash them up with a fork.
c)  Add mayonnaise, salt, and pepper to the eggs and mix together
to get a well flavoured creamy filling. (Chopped cucumber is to be mixed with this filling)
3.  Slice the bread thinly and butter it.
4.  Make the sandwiches , trim off the crust, and cut into shape.
5.  Serve the sandwiches attractively.