Traditionally in the US, New Year’s Day passes quietly, with
most people sleeping in, recovering from hangovers, and watching football
(okay, so at some point it stops passing quietly). There is no customary New Year’s feast unless
you’re a southerner and sit down to collard greens and hopping john as a
delicious way to ensure prosperity during the upcoming twelve months. The rest of us snack our way through the day,
usually with a television set in front of us.
Olive Pinwheels
6 T ground boiled ham
2 T mayonnaise
1 t horseradish
1 loaf sandwich brad
4 T butter
6 stuffed olives
Combine ham, mayonnaise and horse-radish. Remove all crusts from bread. Cut bread lengthwise into slices ¼ inch
thick. Spread with softened butter and
with ham mixture. Place olives in a line
crosswise at 1 end of the bread; roll bread starting at the end of slice. Wrap roll in damp cloth or in oiled paper and
place in refrigerator for several hours.
When ready to serve cut crosswise into slices any thickness
desired. This makes sufficient filling
for 1 full-length slice of bread which will cut 8 thin pinwheels.
Hot Crab-Meat Canapés
½ cup salad dressing (and I think they mean oil and vinegar
here)
½ t prepared mustard
1 t Worcestershire sauce
2 t grated horseradish
1 ½ c flaked crab meat
2 shallow croustades
½ c grated Parmesan cheese
Mix salad dressing, mustard, Worcestershire sauce and
horseradish with crab meat. Heap mixture
into croustades, top with cheese and brown in moderate oven.
That actually sounds pretty good, if you left off the
cheese.
Filled Beets
Marinate small cooked beets overnight in French dressing (again,
they mean oil and vinegar). Remove centers
and fill with paste made of hard-cooked eggs, dry mustard, minced sweet
pickles, salt, pepper and mayonnaise.
I love beets so I’d make a bee-line to this dish on the
buffet table.
Happy New Year to all; may the world have a much better 2012
than it did a 2011. I keep reminding
myself that I still have a job, a house and a husband, but I’m one of the lucky
ones.
(Vintage Russian New Year's postcard from mazaika.com, who is very nice about letting people use his images).
5 comments:
you'd have to fight me for those beets.. Hmmm my favorite veggie.
Happy New Year!!
Thank you for your posts! I enjoy the vintage recipes and your tales of Thing One and Two.
Wishing you all the best for the New :Year.
They all sound yummy. The crab for me and I'd do the olive pinwheels for Himself since he's so partial to olives of all kinds.
Happy New Year to everyone from the Scalf family in sunny Florida.
Fuzzie, Thing One has left us for medical school and Thing Two has gone back to his wife and his farm in Peoria.
We still chat via email, though.
I'm very chuffed about Thing One getting into med school even though I had nothing to do with it. That boy will make a damn fine doctor.
Ooooh, those beets sound good. I love beets so much I rarely do anything but wrap them in foil and bake them, then eat them warm or cold. The simplest preparation is perfect IMHO. Same with asparagus and artichokes. (I live in an area where all these things grow beautifully.)
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