Fruit Jelly For Sweet Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 box of gelatine (2 ounces). 1 cup of cold water. I cup of boiling water.

1 cup of sugar.

1 1/2 cups of orange juice.

1/4 a cup of lemon juice.

Method

Soak the gelatine in the cold water and dissolve in the boiling water; add the sugar and strain; when cold add the orange and lemon juice. Mould in sheets three-eighths of an inch thick.

Claret Jelly For Sweet Sandwiches

Substitute claret for the orange juice and prepare as above. Do not omit the lemon juice.

Fruit Or Claret Jelly Sandwiches With Nuts

Slice blanched English walnuts and pecan nuts or almonds very thin, and stir into whipped cream. Stamp out shapes from the jelly. Spread one piece with the cream and nuts and cover with a second piece of jelly.

With French Fruit

Substitute candied fruit for the nuts and proceed as above, or use nuts and fruit together.

Bread cut for Sandwiches.

Cupid's Butter Sandwiches

Ingredients

The yolks of 4 hard-boiled eggs. I cup of butter. 1/3 a cup of powdered sugar.

1 teaspoonful of orange juice. A grating of orange rind. Angel cakelets or slices of angel cake.

Cream the butter, gradually add the yolks of eggs, passed through a potato ricer or sieve, the sugar and orange juice. Spread upon thin slices of angel cake, prepared for sandwiches, or upon angel cakelets or fingers; press two slices together and serve at once. If allowed to stand any length of time, keep covered and in a cool place.

Cheese-And-Bar-Le-Duc Currant Sandwiches

Spread wheat bread, prepared for sandwiches, with cream cheese; put two or three currants and a little syrup on each piece of bread, and press two pieces together. These may be varied by using sliced maraschino cherries. Either the currants or sliced cherries with a little of the syrup may be mixed with the cheese and then spread upon the bread. Bar-le-Duc currants are imported from France in tiny glasses. The seeds have been removed from the currants, which are cooked in honey.

Hunter's Sandwich (Switzerland)

Spread fresh bread, cut in thin slices, with fresh butter; over this spread a layer of Brie or other cream cheese, and over the cheese spread a layer of honey. Press two similarly shaped pieces together and serve at once.

Hunter's Sandwich (Ellwanger)

Prepare as above, substituting maple syrup (or sugar) for the honey.

Date Bread, Cream Cheese-and-Lettuce Sandwiches.

Cut the bread in thin slices and shape as desired; spread one bit of bread with butter, another bit with cream cheese, set a heart leaf of lettuce between and press together. Chopped nuts may be Stirred into the cheese.

One Loaf Date Bread

1 cup scalded and cooled milk. 1/3 cake compressed yeast (at night).

1/2 a teaspoonful salt.

1/4 a cup molasses or sugar.

1 cup cleaned dates, chopped.

2 cups whole wheat flour.

White flour to knead.