Use unsalted or slightly salted butter, and with a silver knife press into it any flavour desired,—onion juice, paprika, various sauces, chopped peppers, or capers,—using 1 teaspoon of minced herbs, etc., to each tablespoon of butter. Spread in sandwiches.

Cut fresh bread in medium thick slices, trim the four edges, and butter it with butter somewhat softened by warmth. On one side of two slices which belong next to each other put thinly sliced peeled tomatoes, filling in bits to cover the bread neatly. Press 4 or 5 slices cut from pickled walnuts into the juicy parts of the tomatoes, lay 6 or 7 capers also in, and use half a teaspoon of the tiny German pearl onion pickles to each sandwich. Sprinkle with salt, pepper, and celery salt, and spread with mayonnaise. Press the other piece of bread firmly on, and wrap in waxed paper for picnics.

Vary with chopped chives, tarragon leaves, French dressing, etc.

Arrange thinly sliced, cored apples between layers of buttered bread from which the crust has been cut. Sprinkle with salt and spread with mayonnaise, into which a few chopped nuts have been mixed.

Trim and butter squares of bread and fit to them thinly sliced tomatoes, and spread with thin mustard; slice green peppers very thin, and arrange sections of the rings here and there over the tomatoes. Use a little minced chives or shallot, or onions, and season with salt and pepper and lemon juice or some sauce.

Spread squares of bread with curry paste, and cover with chopped tomato to which is added a little chopped onion and the same amount of chopped sour apples. Season with salt.

Spread small oblong pieces of bread, from which the crust is cut, with peanut butter blended with cream, and press firmly together.

Break 2 eggs into a frying pan containing a little melted butter and let them spread, breaking the yolk with a spoon after they are in the pan; let them fry until the edges begin to brown, then season with salt and pepper, and sprinkle with chopped chives. Cut pieces out to fit the bread slices to be used, and, after trimming and buttering the bread, arrange them on one side of the sandwich. Use with no other flavouring, or sprinkle with Worcestershire sauce, or spread with mustard. Wrap in waxed paper for picnics.

Mix chopped nuts in thick cream or mayonnaise, and spread between slices of bread, either with or without a lettuce leaf. Sprinkle with cayenne.

Spread oblong slices of trimmed bread with butter, lay a lettuce leaf between, trimmed to size, and spread with plain or green mayonnaise.

Butter small squares of bread and arrange on them sliced pimolas or any stuffed olives, sprinkle with lemon juice, or spread with mayonnaise.

Slice large pickles and arrange them between buttered bread slices. If German Dill pickles are used and German flavours liked sprinkle with caraway seeds, and use rye bread.

Cut American or Swiss cheese very thin, spread with mustard, and place a piece, trimmed to the size of the bread used, between two pieces of buttered white or rye bread.

Use rye or “black” bread, with caraway seeds baked in it, spread the two slices with unsalted butter, and on one arrange thin slices of Swiss cheese; spread this with German or French mustard, and arrange on it 2 or 3 slices of Dill pickles.

Pare and core 3 apples, stem and seed 2 sweet green peppers, and put them through a vegetable mill. Mix them into 2 NeufchÂtel cheeses, and use as filling for brown or white bread sandwiches.