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Cucumber Sandwich with Smoked Salmon a la Gustaf / Sandwich Concombre au Saumon fume a la Gustaf

Serves 4
📖 From Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book ... A carefully composed supplement book containing illustrations, menus, excellent recipes of appetizers, salads, and a variety of different ... (1924)

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Ingredients

  • • None Eight slices of bread, two spoons of butter, one half pound of
  • • None salmon, a large cucumber, two spoons of dissolved Cox’s gelatine,
  • • None cayenne pepper and salt.

Instructions

Step 1. a round biscuit cutter and spread with the butter and smoked

Step 2. salmon that has been chopped. Decorate with a strip of stirred butter all around the sandwich. Peel the cucumber and slice it a

Step 3. quarter of an inch in thick slices and cut it in the shape of a star

Step 4. with six points. Cut out the center for the filling with the cutter

Step 5. according to the size of the cucumber. Place the cucumber on the

Step 6. sandwich and fill. Decorate the star with stirred butter that has

Step 7. been colored the shade of light green with spinach coloring, and in

Step 8. the center of the filling put a star of truffle. Glaze the star of truffle with some gelatine. Filling. Mix with the rest of the chopped salmon one table¬

Step 9. spoon of chili sauce, a pinch of chili powder, one spoon of Cox’s

Step 10. gelatine and one spoon of whipped cream. Leave in a saucepan on

Step 11. ice until cold, when cold fill the cucumber through a fancy tube in the form of a pyramid. Smoked Salmon Sandwiches a la Diana Sandwiches au Saumon fume a la Diane

Step 12. Cut six slices of well-cured bacon very thin, press it out still

Step 13. thinner, fill and roll. The roll should be about two inches

Step 14. around. Leave in the ice-box until cold, then dip the knife in

Step 15. warm water and slice the rolls in very thin slices; from each roll cut about five slices across. Butter round slices of bread and

Step 16. spread them with smoked salmon; put five of those little slices on

Step 17. each sandwich, one after the other, and trim the bread in between

Step 18. each leaving it in the form of a star. With a paper tube fill a little cream in the center and on top of that decorate a large daisy of

Step 19. truffle with a center of lemon peel. Arrange on a platter in the

Step 20. form of a ring and garnish with parsley. Filling. Put in a saucepan three tablespoons of very fine chopped salmon; add two tablespoons of dissolved Cox’s gelatine