I love it when someone with eagle eyes finds some movie star recipes and sends them to me in case I don’t already have them. My film archivist chum Margie is brilliant at this, and she sent over some Hope Lange recipes she’d found online. They had been transcribed via robot (I think the correct term is OCR – Optical Character Recognition) and it was a bit scrambled. Luckily, a couple of the recipes were featured in another paper so here you go – two lovely ways of fancifying sandwiches to make them “terrific” – especially for teenagers!
I really enjoyed making the Sardine Strips for a party of one. I rarely make myself a sandwich and these felt like something special. I used posh sardines.
Here’s the filling mixture.
I loved making the sandwiches ahead of time, wrapping them up like a parcel, and popping them into the fridge. For a working from home lunch, it felt like a real treat. A present! For me! From the fridge!
The filling was really tasty, so I herby recommend treating yourself to a few sardine strips.
Or if you are having a bit of a party why not make some of Hope’s Cheese Ribbon Sandwiches from the above article too. Fancy pants!
I am very thankful to all the institutions who are scanning and using OCR to make so much wonderful stuff available over the internet. The systems have improved immeasurably over the last 10 years or so, but I do love stumbling upon some that were processed in ye olden dayes. You can read about my favourite example of this kind of machine-impersonating-a-human-recipe-transcription in this post about Jeanette Nolan’s Sizzling Livers and Walnuts, which ended with my favourite line in a recipe ever, “Flour bear, and walk through that wild country”.
Which reminds me, that Sizzling Liver with Walnuts recipe was GOOD, I might make that again sometime…
Thanks Hope, and thanks Margie! This one will be going in the Murder, She Cooked book for sure.
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I have lots of budget sardines in my cupboard that no one really wants to eat, maybe adding all these ingredients for a filling will help!
I have lots of budget sardines in my cupboard that no one really wants to eat, maybe adding all these ingredients for a filling will help!
Give it a go VT, it really did feel like a little treat to have this finger food, the filling was super delicious!
Give it a go VT, it really did feel like a little treat to have this finger food, the filling was super delicious!
Personally i love a sardine sandwich, straight from the tin between two bits of toast – I do prefer toasted bread for these and I would say yes to all those ingredients except the cream and mayo ! No need in my book. You can also mash them with beans – kidney, butter beans, etc to up the fibre content. Long live the humble sardine.
Personally i love a sardine sandwich, straight from the tin between two bits of toast – I do prefer toasted bread for these and I would say yes to all those ingredients except the cream and mayo ! No need in my book. You can also mash them with beans – kidney, butter beans, etc to up the fibre content. Long live the humble sardine.
Oooh, Mark, as usual, your comment has made me STARVING HUNGRY. I always have a tin or two of sardines around the place but today alas, NO BREAD. I like your idea of adding beans to the mix. Mind you, Marlene’s recipe for a sleeping potion of sardines and onion on rye is pretty hard to beat – https://www.silverscreensuppers.com/marlene-dietrich/marlene-dietrichs-sleeping-potion
Oooh, Mark, as usual, your comment has made me STARVING HUNGRY. I always have a tin or two of sardines around the place but today alas, NO BREAD. I like your idea of adding beans to the mix. Mind you, Marlene’s recipe for a sleeping potion of sardines and onion on rye is pretty hard to beat – https://www.silverscreensuppers.com/marlene-dietrich/marlene-dietrichs-sleeping-potion
Made myself this sardine filling for lunch (without the whipped cream)
Very definite improvement compared to plain sardines on bread, at least for my taste!
Oh fabulous, VT. Glad you enjoyed this one, I might make a little pared down version of this again soon too. Yum.
Made myself this sardine filling for lunch (without the whipped cream)
Very definite improvement compared to plain sardines on bread, at least for my taste!
Oh fabulous, VT. Glad you enjoyed this one, I might make a little pared down version of this again soon too. Yum.
So glad you found a clean scan of the article! Looks like a tasty sandwich! Cheers!
Yay! Margie! I meant to send you an email to let you know I’d made this and enjoyed it. Lots of love to you from across the pond xx
So glad you found a clean scan of the article! Looks like a tasty sandwich! Cheers!
Yay! Margie! I meant to send you an email to let you know I’d made this and enjoyed it. Lots of love to you from across the pond xx