Name: Sardine Sandwiches
Ingredients: 1 can sardines in oil; bread

Sardine Sandwiches

Ingredients

1 can sardines in oil
bread

Directions

Mince the sardines on a plate with a silver fork, keeping the oil.
Cut thin slices of bread and spread sardines on them.
Fold the slices of bread together and trim the edges.
Make the sandwiches small for serving in the evening.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Sardines in oil: Provide the main savory filling, with their oil keeping the mixture moist and spreadable.
Bread: Acts as the carrier that holds the sardine filling together.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.