Name: Nasturtium Sandwiches
Ingredients: nasturtium flowers; nasturtium seeds; buttered bread

Nasturtium Sandwiches

Ingredients

nasturtium flowers
nasturtium seeds
buttered bread

Directions

Shred the nasturtium flowers and a few tender seeds.
Place the mixture between slices of buttered bread.
Cut into desired sandwich shapes and serve.

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

Nasturtium flowers: Provide a peppery, fresh flavour and the main filling.
Nasturtium seeds: Add a sharper, peppery bite to the filling.
Buttered bread: Gives a soft, rich base that holds the filling and adds fat.

“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.