SARDINE PASTE
Work required amount of sardines into a paste with a broad knife or spatula. Add to this very tiny pickled onions, the quantity depending upon the taste, about one-quarter as much onion as paste, is good. Season with Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, paprika, celery salt and a liberal amount of lemon juice.
This is delicious for sandwiches, to serve on small pieces of toast with cocktails, or on crackers with salad.
SANDWICHES
Take each fish, lightly scrape off skin and remove the tail, and pick the meat into convenient sized pieces with a fork. Put the pieces into a bowl of lemon juice and let stand a few minutes. Then drain and spread on thin slices of bread between fresh lettuce leaves. If the “Soused” Sardines are used, substitute mayonnaise dressing for the lemon juice.
SARDINE SANDWICHES
Very tasty sandwiches can be prepared by mincing fish with half the quantity of hard-boiled eggs and moistening with mayonnaise dressing. Place this mixture between thin slices of bread and cut into small squares with a sharp knife.
CHICKEN AND LOBSTER SALAD
- ½ chicken,
- ½ pound tinned peas,
- 1 tablespoonful chopped parsley and olives,
- 1 pound tinned lobster,
- Mayonnaise dressing,
- ¼ pint oil.
Remove the meat from bones and cut up into small pieces. Sprinkle over with lemon juice and stand on one side for thirty minutes. Then mix with peas, stir the chopped parsley and olives into a mayonnaise and mix all well together. Garnish with gherkins and tiny onions. Asparagus may be substituted for peas.