A friend of mine brought me a coobkook—MEALS, TESTED, TASTED AND APPROVED, by Good Housekeeping Institute that was published in 1930. Recipes were very much simpler then.

For instance, here are suggestions for canapes:

Cream Cheese Canapes
Crisp crackers
2 small cream cheese
3 tablespoons caviar
1 teaspoon finely chopped onion
Cream together the cream cheese and caviar. Spread on crisp crackers and sprinkle with finely chopped onion.

Tomato Sandwich
6 tablespoons deviled ham
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/8 teaspoon minced onion
3 large tomatoes

Combine the deviled ham with the mayonnaise and onion. Cut the tomatoes into slices and spread some of the mixture on each.

A far cry from what we have today!

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