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drop is the less cookery measure that equals 1/60 of teaspoon

dash is a small cookery measure that equals 1/16 of teaspoon

fl. oz equals 30 ml

cup equals 240 ml

Well, are you ready to start?

So come on!

SANDWICH

Sandwich is the simplest meal you can only make. You needn’t fry, or boil, or cook something for it in any way. All you need is bread and some accompanied in slices – ham, cheese, sausage, fish and so on, and so forth. For more interesting sandwiches, you can take sauce or seasoning: mustard, ketchup, mayonnaise.

First sandwiches became known in 1762. A certain Edward Gibbon wrote in his diary that John Montague, Duke Sandwich, inveterate gambler, could spend twenty-four hours at a card-table. As he needed to eat something not leaving a game, he asked for some cold roast-beef between two pieces of bread.

There are many kinds of sandwiches now, and any of them may be great – everything depends on likings and bases. Usual sandwiches are square, and fashionable “clubbers” are triangular: somebody invented them when cut usual ones diagonally.

If you want to make classic sandwich with ham and cream cheese, you need:

TOAST BREAD

2 pieces

HAM

1 slice

(it should be of the same contours as bread is)

CREAM CHEESE

1 tsp

ROMAN LETTUCE

1 leaf

(wider than bread and ham are)

TOMATO

1 piece

For making sandwiches, you should:

spread evenly cream cheese on both of bread pieces

put slice of ham on one piece of bread

lay lettuce upon ham

cut tomato in rings and put some on lettuce (tomato rings must not be wider than bread)

NOTICE: you should be attentive for not cutting yourself

cover sandwich with the other piece of bread.

NOTICE: if you want to present your sandwich more interesting, you can make clubbers of them or shape it as you like.

Bon appetite!

CANAPE

A canapé is a peculiar kind of sandwiches. First, it’s very small – as the saying is to bite once only. Second, canapé can consist of any solid food – bread is not of sine qua non; moreover, there are vegetable or fruit canapés. Third, it is served on sticks, and this is the most interesting in it!

This hors d’oeuvre is French. It was named after a sofa where people sit and eat something light and not staining their hands or clothes. Today canapé is a part and parcel of fourchettes and other official dinners. Nevertheless, you can make it yourself and gladden your mom and dad.