The Second Email We Sent Today, April 16, 2019

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LAST WEEK ON HMM DAILY

Max Dubler

• The Future of the Past Is All Downhill
• Stop the Australians Before Americans Get Slaughtered
• Donald Trump Is a Plane Crash
• Girl Powers
• “Civility” Means “Shut Up”
• Scanning 900,000 Faces Was an Act of Blind Faith
• How Many Dollars Should Bernie Sanders, or Any of Us, Have?
• What’s a Fair Percentage of Your Attention to Spend on Tipping?
• A New Resolution for Baltimore
• The Tax Man Is Not Your Friend, But the Tax Middleman Is Your Enemy
• There Was No Meaningful Boundary Between Kirstjen Nielsen and Donald Trump

RECIPES

We present here for your continued delectation four recipes for sandwiches, hand-picked from The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, published in 1909 and now in the public domain.

EGG AND OLIVE SANDWICH
Chop five hard-boiled eggs very fine. Stone and chop fifteen large olives and mix with the egg, moisten all with three tablespoonfuls of melted butter, season with salt and pepper, and mix to a moist paste. Spread on this slices of lightly buttered white bread. Put two slices together and garnish with an olive.

FRENCH SANDWICH
To one pint of cold cooked fish, add two hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, two teaspoonfuls of capers, and a little mayonnaise to moisten. Mix and spread on thin slices of lightly buttered white bread, cover with another slice, and cut in strips. Add a sprinkling of finely chopped cress to the top of each sandwich; rub the yolk of a hard-boiled egg through a sieve and chop the white very fine. Add a sprinkling of the yolk to the cress on half the number of sandwiches, adding the white to the other half. Then arrange them in groups of twos, one of each color on the serving plate. Any cold meat may be used instead of the fish.

SARDELLEN PASTE SANDWICH
Wash, bone, and skin one-half pound of sardellen and mash to a paste. Rub together the yolks of two hard-boiled eggs and one teaspoonful of butter until smooth, then add the sardellen paste. Mix and spread on small squares of buttered toast. Serve with an olive.

TOMATO AND ONION SANDWICH
Mix in a bowl some tomato catsup, season with pepper and salt and a pinch of sugar, add a little finely chopped onion, mix and place between thin slices of buttered white bread, with a crisp lettuce leaf between.

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