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fine and mix it with the salad dressing. Celery, cabbage, cress,
cucumbers, tomatoes or olives may be chopped and added to the meat with
the dressing. When lettuce is used, the leaf is served whole, the edges
just appearing outside the bread. Any one of these vegetables, combined
with a salad dressing, makes a delicious sandwich without meat or fish.
When desired, other well-prepared sauces may be used in the place of
salad dressings. Fillings of uncooked fruit may be used; but, in the
case of dried fruits, it is preferable to stew until tender, after the
fruit has been finely chopped. Pineapple, lemon or orange juice may be
added at pleasure. Sandwiches prepared from entire-wheat bread, with
fig or date fillings, are particularly wholesome for the children's
luncheon basket.

When a particularly aesthetic sandwich is desired, wrap the butter that
is to be used in spreading the bread in a napkin, and put it over night
in a jar, on a bed of violets or rose petals; strew more flowers over
the top and cover the jar tightly. If meat or fish is to be used as the
basis of the sandwich, substitute nasturtium leaves and blossoms, or
sprigs of mignonette, for the former flowers.

Fancy butter makes an attractive filling for a sandwich; it has also the
merit of being less often in evidence than many another filling.

Sandwiches, except when vegetables and dressings are used, may be
prepared early in the day, placed in a stone jar, covered with a
slightly dampened cloth, and set away in a cool place until such time as
they are wanted. Or, they may be wrapped in paraffine paper. Still, when
convenient, it is preferable to have everything in readiness, and put
the sandwiches together just before serving. Garnish the serving-dish
with parsley, cress, celery plumes, slices of lemon, barberries and
leaves, or fresh nasturtium leaves and blossoms.

=Beverages Served with Sandwiches.=

Coffee heads the list of beverages most acceptably served with
sandwiches. Tea comes next. Cocoa and chocolate are admissible only with
the dainty, aesthetic varieties, in which fruit or some kind of sweetmeat
is used.

SAVORY SANDWICHES.

"Hail, wedded nourishment!"

=Ham-and-Tongue Sandwiches.=

Chop two parts of cold tongue and one part of cold ham (one-fourth as
much fat ham as lean) very fine; pound in a mortar, and season with
paprica and a little mixed mustard. Spread butter on one piece of bread,
the meat mixture o