This concludes our Cold Supper week. Hope you’ve enjoyed and gotten some ideas! Frankly, I’d love a slice of hard-cooked egg in center of round of bread garnished with caviar, wouldn’t you?

OPEN-FACED SANDWICH SUGGESTIONS

From The Encyclopedia of Cooking Complete in 24 Volumes, Volume 14: 500 Ways to Make Tasty Sandwiches (1953).

Remove crusts from loaf of bread and slice thin. Cut into fancy shapes—rounds, stars, squares, diamonds, crescents, horseshoes, triangles, etc., with fancy cookie cutters. Spread with softened butter, cover with desired filling/topping and decorate with edible garnish.

Slice of tomato on bread, cut the same size, top with slice of hard-cooked egg, and sprinkle with minced pickles or parsley.

Slice of hard-cooked egg in center of round of bread. Garnish with border of caviar.

Garnish buttered circle of bread with border of sieved hard-cooked egg yolk. Fill center with caviar, pâté de foie gras or ground cooked chicken livers. Place a slice of stuffed olive in center.

Slice of smoked salmon. Garnish with sprig of dill or thin slice of dill or sweet pickle.

Cut bread into diamond shape. Place a sardine across top and a row of radish slices on each side of sardine.

Cut bread into rectangle and arrange Salmagundi Salad across center. Place strips of pickled beets or circles of hard-cooked egg on each side of the salad.

Slice of cheese on bread with border of Egg Butter forced through a pastry tube or garnish of sliced radishes.

Arrange strips of kippered herring across slices of buttered rye bread. Sprinkle minced onion between strips.

Cut bread into diamond shape, spread half with cream cheese and half with tart jelly. Cover jelly with slices of ripe banana.

Spread white bread with orange marmalade and garnish with halves of seedless grapes.

Slice an apple crosswise, cut out core, place on mound of buttered bread and fill center of apple with a grape, a cherry, or a spoonful of jelly or peanut butter.

Slice of roast chicken, turkey or cured ham on whole-wheat bread. Garnish with slices of cranberry jelly cut into fancy shapes.

Cover small squares of buttered bread with chopped or sliced hard-cooked eggs; arrange a row of anchovy or herring fillets diagonally across bread.

Spread diamond of bread with mayonnaise, place slice of hard-cooked egg in center and small slices of cucumber on each end. Use anchovy fillets for cucumber.

Place slice of tomato on bread, decorate with asparagus tips and mayonnaise.

Cut meat from cooked lobster claw into halves, place on buttered bread and garnish with mayonnaise and sprigs of dill.

Place row of sliced stuffed olives across center of bread. Decorate on each side with mayonnaise forced through a pastry tube.

Slice of boiled ham cut to fit shape of bread. Garnish with strips of pickled beets.

Mix grated uncooked carrots with enough honey to hold together and spread on whole wheat bread.

Cut slice of bread into diamond shape and spread 1 end with thick cranberry sauce. On other end place slice of meat loaf cut to fit bread.

Cut slice of bread into rectangle Spread with mayonnaise, arrange a slice of hard-cooked egg at one end and bits of green pepper to resemble stem and leaves of a flower.

Spread crackers with mayonnaise, cover with thin slice of pared cucumber and garnish with rosette of soft sharp cheese.

Place slice of plum tomato on round of toast the same size. Top with ring of bell pepper and garnish with mayonnaise.