(found in very old newspaper clipping)
by Heloise Cruse (aka:hints from heloise)
Since I'm in the restaurant business, I would like to give your housewives a recipe that's ever so good.
We often use this recipe in sandwiches and stuffed tomatoes. Or just place it on a big leaf of lettuce and top it with a spponful of salad dressing, a dash of papricka, and a green stuffed olive. This is one of the best sellers in our restaurant. Here is how it's made:
Use one can of light grated tuna. We use grated because it costs less. Mash or squeeze all of the oil out if you cannot find tuna packed in brine.
Then put it in a mixing bowl. Grate on small apple on the smallest part of your grater into the tuna and add the juice of 1/2 lemon.
Now take any leftover meats that you have in your refrigerator such as lean pieceds of ham, port, beef, or chicken (whether it's fried, boiled, or baked, use it) and grind it in your meat grinder and add to the mixture. While your meat grinder is out, also grind a few sweet pickles into the mixture. It doesn't really make any difference how much other meat you add to this so long as you start with that ONE can of tuna fish.
Add just enough salad dressing to the mixture to make it the consistency that you prefer. Chill thoroughly before serving.
Any one, two, or even three different kinds of meat can be ground up into this mixture at the same time. To vary it, some days we use ham, the next day we will use pork and maybe the following day we will use turkey, but it's always good and varied.
We call this "Today's House Special".
Signed: Restaurateur