My initial post on Magic Entrees to Make with Canned Salmon (Canned Salmon Industry, 1937) showed that the canned salmon industry wanted home cooks to do all kinds of things with salmon, from simply plunking it straight from the can onto some salad greens to hollowing out a loaf of bread and using a salmon-based mixture as a filling. I didn't get to a two-page spread on a more mundane use for canned salmon, even though that was actually one of my favorite sections. Today, we'll look at a few of the Canned Salmon Industry's favorite sandwiches!
I just loved this picture: perfect little square sandwiches, with a couple wrapped in waxed paper in that old-timey Ziploc-hasn't-been-invented-yet way.
These are School Lunch Sandwiches! They're perfect for the already-unpopular kid who also wants to smell like fish all day.
And yes, they pair that classic peanut-butter-celery combo with flaked canned salmon.
For the daintier cook who wants to make the ladies' luncheon look fancy and smell like a chum bucket, the book offers these little rolls.
They're Salmon Nut Tea Rolls-- essentially salmon salad spread thinly on slices of bread that are then rolled up and coated with cream cheese and nuts so they're all fancy.
And if the little tiny salmon rolls are not quite decorative enough, there's always that crafty cook's favorite: the sandwich loaf!
Just look at that hard-cooked egg "sun"(?) surrounded by the olive-slice "flowers"(?)! And all it takes is...
... an unsliced loaf of bread to have its crusts removed before being cut horizontally, slathering all the layers with mayonnaise, filling one with tomatoes and lettuce, another with canned salmon and tartar sauce, and a third with chopped hard-cooked eggs, pimento, and olives, then "icing" the entire thing with cream cheese thinned with a bit of milk. Actually, this does sound pretty easy compared to some of the other sandwich loaves I've featured, which require multiple types of homemade salads, usually in clashing flavors.
I am always intrigued by the combinations people used to see as perfectly acceptable sandwiches. Go ahead with your peanut butter and salmon! Get all fancy with cream-cheese-based sandwich "icing," as convenience doesn't seem to matter one bit! Just as long as you've got bread and an imagination (plus canned salmon in this case!), you've got a sandwich.
Ah yes, fish is brain food so pack it in your child's unrefrigerated school lunch. If they don't have ziplock bags they probably don't have cooler lunch boxes either. I do remember that there was a boy in my class that few people liked who would eat sardines for lunch and then sneak up on unsuspecting classmates and blow his fish breath on them, so you're spot on with your comment about the unpopular fish breath kid.
ReplyDeleteMaking sure that food stayed safe didn't seem like it was as much of a priority back then.
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