The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps

The pattern people's household book, 1927 — five hundred recipes, then how to lay a table, take out a stain and stock a first-aid cabinet.

Appetizers

8 recipes in this part of The Butterick Book of Recipes and Household Helps.

Prepared Bread for Canapés

Canapés are made from stale white bread, cut in quarter-inch slices and then shaped with a cutter into circles or rings two and one-half or…

Anchovy Canapés

3 tablespoons anchovy paste 2 hard-cooked eggs Garnish of whole anchovies (may be omitted) Anchovies are small fish which are salted and…

Sardine Canapés

Remove skin and backbone. Flake the sardines with a fork and season with lemon-juice, salt and a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. Spread…

Cheese and Olive Canapés

3 tablespoons cream cheese pickled beet Spread on the prepared bread a paste made by mixing equal proportions of cream cheese and chopped…

Suggestions for Canapés

1. Spread rounds of bread, toasted and buttered, with purée of pâté de foie gras. On top of this place a slice of hard-boiled egg. Garnish…

Cocktails with Shrimps

1. Shrimps may be put in glasses of cracked ice and each one dipped in mayonnaise. They may be served on glass plates. 2. Shrimps may be…

Strawberry-And-Pineapple Cocktail

Combine the orange- and lemon-juice sweetened to taste, keeping the mixture rather tart. Place on ice. Wash and drain the strawberries and…

Mixed Fruit Cocktail

Slice off the tops of the oranges and scoop out the inside, being careful not to break the inside white skin of the orange-peel. Put the…

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