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Sauted Cheese Sandwiches

From Attractive menus (1916).

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A historical recipe

Attractive menus, by Harriet. [from old catalog] Warner (1916).

United States

Known as an American 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.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. one tablespoon milk

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Hot oil. Never put water on an oil fire: turn off the heat and cover the pan with a lid or a damp tea towel. Pat food dry before it goes into hot oil, and lower it in gently, away from you.
  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • 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. !Mix grated cheese Avith salad dressing and spi-ead between slices of buttered bread.
  2. Dip in white of egg slightly beaten with one tablespoon milk.
  3. Bake in hot oven until a delicate brown.
  4. Frog Legs en Tomatoes.
  5. Put frog legs in boiling water;
  6. take out and put in eold Avater.
  7. Dip in cornnieal and place in frying pan with butter and fry slowly, turning carefully.
  8. Prepare tomatoes as for sauce.
  9. Arrange legs in it and garnish with toast cut in cubes.
  10. SAUCE : Strain tomatoes, season with salt, pepper, and cayenne pepper ;
  11. thicken slightly.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Frying pan
  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Grater
  • Sieve
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Credit

From Attractive menus (1916), printed page 24, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/attractivemenus00warn

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.