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French Savory Sandwiches

A sandwich made from baked eclair paste filled with mayonnaise and chopped game or chicken.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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French Savory Sandwiches

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prepare eclair paste and bake in small pieces until light.

  2. Split the baked pieces with a knife.

Fill

  1. Fill each piece with a mixture of equal parts mayonnaise dressing and chopped game or chicken.

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

Eclair paste
Bakes into light, hollow pastry pieces that hold the filling.
Mayonnaise dressing
Adds moisture and richness to the filling.
Chopped game or chicken
Provides the savory meat base of the filling.

“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.

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