This section is from the book "The Steward's Handbook And Guide To Party Catering", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Larousse Gastronomique.
Literally couches, sofas, but in culinary language pieces of toast or bread with something spread upon them.
Chopped anchovies and eggs on fried bread.
Cheese melted in the oven on fried bread.
Mixture of anchovies, ham, truffles, gherkins, oilimd vinegar in small hollowed rolls, decorated with aspic mayonnaise.
Chicken, ham, cheese, anchovies, butter, cayenne", salt, pounded to a paste together, passed through a seive, spread on fried bread, crumbs on top; baked a few minutes.
Strips of fried bread spread with sardine butter made by pounding sardines with hard-boiled yolks and butter, mixed with parsley, mustard, etc.; a boneless, half sardine on each one; served hot.
Fried rounds of bread spread with thick shrimp sauce and picked shrimps enough to cover the sauce.
Chicken canapes or sandwiches with buttered bread, shred lettuce, mayonnaise sauce on the lettuce, breast of chicken and fillets of anchovy next, and bread on top.
 
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