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Italian Canape

From Good Housekeeping's Book of Menus, Recipes and Household Discoveries (1922).

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A historical recipe

Good Housekeeping's Book of Menus, Recipes and Household Discoveries, by various (1922).

Italy

Known as an Italian recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

  • Raw egg. Raw or lightly cooked egg carries a risk, above all for children, older people, anyone pregnant or unwell.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. a tablespoonful of mayonnaise over each serving
  2. 3 hard-cooked eggs

Cook safely

  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. 3 hard-cooked eggs’ 6 tablespoonfuls thin mayon- 6 rounds pimiento naise Finely-diced celery For each individual serving place one-half of a hard-cooked egg, cut crosswise, cut side down on a round pimiento slightly larger than the egg.
  2. Pour a tablespoonful of mayonnaise over each serving and sprinkle the whole with finely-diced celery.
  3. San Francisco, Cal.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From Good Housekeeping's Book of Menus, Recipes and Household Discoveries (1922), printed page 134, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bwb_C0-ABT-645

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.