Toasted Hot Santa Fe Sandwich (1930)

• 1 lb cooked roast beef, diced fine
• 4 hard-boiled eggs, chopped fine
• 4 green chiles, diced fine
• 1/2 cup pimentos, diced fine
• 1 celery stock, diced fine
• 1/4 lb Swiss cheese, diced fine
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tspn lemon juice
• 1/2 cup chili sauce
• 8 drops Tabasco sauce
• White toasting bread, cut into 1/2-inch slices

Warm both sides of bread under the broiler before topping with the sandwich spread. Place diced cook beef, hard-boiled eggs, green chiles, pimento, celery, and Swiss cheese in a bowl. 

Add mayonnaise, lemon juice, chili sauce, and Tabasco sauce. Mix thoroughly and spread generously on bread slices. 

Place on baking sheet and put 5 inches under preheated broiler. Toast until topping is browned and bubbly. Serve open faced. Yields 6 servings.

More "Lost" Sandwiches

The Highball Sandwich (1940)

Classic Brown Derby Monte Cristo Sandwich (1959)

(Origin - "Dining by Rail - The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine" by James D. Porterfield, published in 1993.)