1925 About Town Cocktail Book by Joe Fitchett

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Hors d'Oeiivres

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iILLBTED anchovies, placed on narrow strips of buttered bread, _ sprinkled with lemon juice and garnished with pimento, are always good as a starter. F

ALLEN CUP CAVIARE CUT rounds of bread one-fourth inch thick. Saute, one side only. Spread unsauted side with watercress, butter and with pastry bag and tube pipe, border with butter. Pill centres with caviare and finely chopped yolks of hard boiled eggs. ROQUEFORT APPETIZERS CRUMBLE 1/4 cup Eoquelfort cheese and add 1/4 teaspoon paprika, 1 teaspoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon catsup to make mix ture of right consistency to spread. Cream together and spread on dainty shapes of thin bread.

PIGS These are small pork sausages the length of half a thumb, ordered specially at your butcher's. Just cook in ordinary way, force toothpick in middle, dip either end in mustard and serve hot.

An Ancient Legend IT WAS somewhere in Italy back in the darkest days of the Dark Ages. "Your highness," announced a court attendant, "an American bootlegger at the palace with a supply of choice Ameri can hooch." Caesar Borgia's eyes lighted with an unholy Ifire. "Show him up right away," he chortled. "My old reliable stock of poisons hasn't been functioning at all satisfactory lately."

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