Camp Tuesday
Indignity Vol. 4, No. 135
GOOD EVENING! YOUR Indignity editor spent most of the working day behind the wheel of a rented Kia Forte, so today's newsletter consists of a weather review and a recipe. We'll have more material tomorrow, possibly including a podcast, if I can fit one in between day camp dropoff and a doctor's appointment.
WEATHER REVIEWS
New York City, August 5, 2024
★★★ Turning off the air conditioner for even a moment brought morning heat seeping into the bedroom. For the cat's sake, it had to stay on along with the living room unit when the people went out. Sun hammered down from an empty sky onto an empty sidewalk. Japanese pagoda tree petals lay all over the mouth of 104th Street at Amsterdam, under the wide, blooming canopy. The humidity was swiftly dropping, and the light on Lincoln Center was so severe and dazzling that it looked filtered. For all the heat, the air felt clean and easy to breathe. Late clouds cut off the interval of brightness, sending the rest of the day into a long, dim twilight.
EASY LISTENING DEP'T.
CLICK ON THIS box to find the Indignity Morning Podcast archive.
TOM SCOCCA
SANDWICH RECIPES DEP'T.
WE PRESENT INSTRUCTIONS in aid of the assembly of a sandwich selected from Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's Salad Appetizer Cook Book, by Maria Matilda Ericsson Hammond. Published in 1924, and now in the Public Domain and available at archive.org for the delectation of all.
Chicken Lettuce Sandwiches à la Rudolf
Sandwiches de Poulet au Laitue à la Rudolf
Take a small head of lettuce, eight slices of bread, one cup of ground chicken, two tablespoons of butter, one tablespoon of lemon juice, pepper, mustard, and salt.
How to Make It. Stir chicken [Ed. note: use cooked chicken], lemon juice, pepper, salt, and mustard together and spread the slices of bread with this mixture. Press the lettuce leaves on a napkin and put a lettuce leaf on each of the four sandwiches; put the other slices of bread one on top of each. Press them firmly, trim them all around and cut each sandwich in two across. Arrange each on a lettuce leaf on a platter with the heart of the lettuce in the center and decorate with a cross of Pimentos on each sandwich.
If you decide to prepare and attempt to enjoy a sandwich inspired by this offering, be sure to send a picture to indignity@indignity.net.
MARKETING DEP'T.
Supplies are really and truly running low of the second printing of 19 FOLK TALES, still available for gift-giving and personal perusal! Sit in the crushing heat with a breezy collection of stories, each of which is concise enough to read before the thunderstorms start.
LESS THAN 5 COPIES LEFT: HMM WEEKLY MINI-ZINE, Subject: GAME SHOW, Joe MacLeod’s account of his Total Experience of a Journey Into Television, expanded from the original published account found here at Hmm Daily. The special MINI ZINE features other viewpoints related to an appearance on, at, and inside the teevee game show Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, and is available for purchase at SHOPULA.
