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he might go on playing without intermission. Byron wrote, 
alluding to the two Earls, Spencer, and Sandwich :— 
“The one invented half a coat, 
The other half a dinner.” 
As an acceptable, and nourishing little meal, when the teeth are 
defective, or the masticatory powers feeble, an excellent plate 
of Sandwiches may be made thus: “ Prepare a little good gravy, 
or stock, and add to it enough gelatine to ensure firmness when 
cold; there will not be any necessity to clarify the stock for 
this. Pour it on a dish, or soup plate, and when set, about an 
eighth of an inch thick, stamp out small rounds of it, and take 
a couple of these rounds for each Sandwich, adding a central 
layer of finely-minced, underdone beef-steak, or mutton-chop 
(keeping the gravy therein). Now form these into Sandwiches 
with brown, or white bread and butter, stamping each to the 
shape of the jellied stock. In all cases keep the stock cool, and 
prepare the Sandwiches immediately before serving.” Other 
Sandwiches may be conveniently, and profitably made for 
similar uses, such as of egg (hardly boiled), chicken-cream, 
minced beef with olives, sardines, cream cheese, etc. ; and likewise 
sweet Sandwiches of plain jams, fruit compotes, and marmalade ; 
a happy combination is that of Gruyére cheese, and plantains. 
““* What are all them clerks eating Sandvidges for?’ asked 
Mr. Weller, senior, of his son, Sam, when they went together 
to the Will Office, at the Bank of England. ‘ Cos it’s their dooty, 
I suppose,’ replied Sam; ‘it’s a part o’ the system: they’re 
allvays a-doin’ it here, all day long’ ” (Pickwick). 
Apricot Sandwiches are especially grateful to a weakly, 
qualmish stomach which can only bear light food; they should 
be made with a purée of fresh, ripe fruit, sweetened, and 
flavoured with Noyau. In Devonshire Sandwiches are prepared 
with the clotted cream of the county spread on brown bread, 
having sugar, and grated biscuit-crumbs strewn on the top just 
before serving, so that their crispness may be fresh ; sometimes 
also a layer of sweetened raspberries underlies the cream. 
“Claret, Sandwich, and an appetite,” as Byron gossips in Don 
Juan, “ are things which make an English evening pass.” 
Some remarkable Sandwiches were lately recorded (by Dr. J. 
Johnston) as having been made with satisfactory effect of cotton- 
wool, for a patient who accidentally swallowed his false teeth 
