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[Cucina]

Remember those little tea sandwiches with the crusts cut off - cut into delicate corners or long rectanges? Do you still make them and on what ocassions? what are your favorites? Mine include: pimento cheese, cream cheese with green olives, round cut one's with whole tomato slices and a little mayonaise, tuna fish with sweet relish.

[ladyyoung98]

only for holiday parties or really special occasions...and what they are filled with pretty much depends upon my mood

[Cucina]

and  what they are filled  with  pretty much  depends  upon my mood

In the mood to share?

[Gifted Gourmet]

A bazillion cool tea sandwich ideas here from none other than Daniel Rogov ...

Among my own personal favorites:

Smoked salmon with cream cheese and scallion greens
Roquefort cheese blended with butter and cream cheese.
Anchovy fillets, chopped very finely, blended with cream cheese
Red caviar (salmon eggs) mixed together with lemon juice and cream cheese

[Cucina]

A bazillion cool tea sandwich ideas here from none other than Daniel Rogov ... 

Among my own personal favorites:

Smoked salmon with cream cheese and scallion greens
Roquefort cheese blended with butter and cream cheese.
Anchovy fillets, chopped very finely, blended with cream cheese
Red caviar (salmon eggs) mixed together with lemon juice and cream cheese

Gifted Gourmet - Wow! That made me hungry! What a good list! Question - how do you make the red caviar ones without all the eggs getting mashed?

[Gifted Gourmet]

First, blend the cream cheese with a bit of lemon juice until fluffy .. fold in the salmon eggs gently! top with a dollop of the eggs and leave the top slightly off center ... no crushed caviar that way!

[ludja]

Benedictine spread is a southern classic (basically grated cucumber and onions in cream cheese; tinted very light green). Here's a recipe. I add a litle lemon juice as well.

I also like southern shrimp paste (ground cooked shrimp, butter, grated shallots, s&p, a little cayenne); although I usually serve that on toast points... I've also seen suggestions to serve it on small beaten biscuits...

Edited by ludja, 22 November 2004 - 07:16 PM.

[Carolyn Tillie]

Gosh - I never realized these were Southern in nature here in the states. As a devoted Anglophile, I will make them as part of a British High Tea. My favorites:

(kinda like Melissa's) Smoked Salmon, Cream Cheese, and Dill (different than scallions)
Watercress and Butter
Cucumber
Potted Shrimp (butter mashed with shrimp, mace, ginger, a bit of cayenne, S&P)
Ritz Special Egg (from the Ritz Carlton - made with capers)
Deviled Ham
Alice B. Toklas Sandwiches (kinda hard to describe - saute some mushrooms in butter and beat into a paste. Season with cayenne and mix with butter. Now and then, Alice would add scrambled eggs or parmesan cheese)

Thinking about the south -- my Dad would INSIST on a sandwich with Pimiento Cheese!

Hmmmmm... time for tea!

Edited by Carolyn Tillie, 22 November 2004 - 08:38 PM.

[Della]

I love tea sandwiches and have made them for several "girl" parties such as my best friends bridal shower. I like to do cucumber & butter, egg salad, salmon w/cream cheese and chicken salad w/almonds. I pulse the chicken salad in the food processor and it turns out quite good.

[tejon]

I love finger sandwiches - easy to make up, they travel well, and people love them. My favorite is chutney and cheese, though I also love watercress and cucumber sandwiches.

[Betts]

Cream cheese and pineapple on wheat bread
Chicken salad with curry and chutney
Smoked salmon with caper and egg butter
Salmon with butter and sweet pickle ( a Canadian specialty)
Cream cheese with candied ginger on date bread

[lizprince]

Cucumber Tea Sandwiches are my absolute favorite! For my son's baptism, I served an assortment of sandwiches including one the men really loved...beef tenderloin and caramelized onions with a horseradish mayonnaise

[jackal10]

Cucumber (on white bread) is classic. If only one, this is the one.

Tinned salmon (not tuna, not fresh salmon) with vinegar

Egg mayonnaise (cress optional)

Smoked salmon. Leave out the cream cheese, just put in more salmon

Gentlemans Relish or Marmite

Shippams Chicken Paste (or Bloater)

Thin ham and mustard

[lovebenton0]

Perfect for an afternoon party, tea or not -- or just us light munchin' at home, and good on the road. I always like to make at least two kinds, even impromptu snacking for us. For a planned party I'll do four -- whatever strikes me at the time.

Some favorites:

Smoked salmon with cream cheese, lemon/dill

curried mayo chicken salad

sliced tomato, s&p with avocado mayo

cream cheese with minced ham and black olive

thinly sliced rare roast lamb or beef with mustard horseradish (best on rye)

pimento cheese topped with a slice of jalapeno

liverwurst, mustard and thinly sliced onion

and for kids (of all ages ) peanut butter/honey with a forked slice of banana, sprinkled with nutmeg

[Mayhaw Man]

I love tea sandwiches. I concur with all of the above but especially with watercress and butter. I love those things. They were the best part of Thursday Bridge when my mother hosted the "bridge queens" when I was growing up. The leftovers never lasted very long.

[Cucina]

I love tea sandwiches. I concur with all of the above but especially with watercress and butter. I love those things. They were the best part of Thursday Bridge when my mother hosted the "bridge queens" when I was growing up. The leftovers never lasted very long.

Too funny! I was just about to post that this is definitely a girly girl, ladies only thread but had suspected their were a few men out there that had sureptitiously raided the leftover tea sandwiches in their youth and pined for the experience again! What I want to know is whether there are any men out there that have actually made tea sandwiches?

[AmbrosiaFood]

My grandfather would make a sandwich spread with bologna, mayonnaise, and sweet pickles; and a few other ingredients.

[Cucina]

My grandfather would make a sandwich spread with bologna, mayonnaise, and sweet pickles; and a few other ingredients.

Yes, but did he cut off the crusts and cut them into dainty pieces or shapes?

[tryska]

cucumber and butter is my all time favorite.


which i haven't had in a while. hmm.

[petite tête de chou]

Thinly sliced (cooked) calves liver with beets, onion and arugula (or spinach) on pumpernickel. Served with a particularly strong brew of black tea- no cream or sugar.

[Mayhaw Man]

I love tea sandwiches. I concur with all of the above but especially with watercress and butter. I love those things. They were the best part of Thursday Bridge when my mother hosted the "bridge queens" when I was growing up. The leftovers never lasted very long.

Too funny! I was just about to post that this is definitely a girly girl, ladies only thread but had suspected their were a few men out there that had sureptitiously raided the leftover tea sandwiches in their youth and pined for the experience again! What I want to know is whether there are any men out there that have actually made tea sandwiches?

No. No man has ever made one.

[Allura]

Occasionally, some of us girls will have a tea, or a craft day (emroidery, and crochet usually), and tea sandwiches are on the menu. Also, lots of dessert :) Anyway, usually cucmber & butter and roast beef w/ mustard (on whole grain) are ones we always make. The watercress ones aren't bad, but the girls that started up the tea idea decided that watercress was for folks who had servants that could deal with all the little leaves!

This thread is great for ideas for the next one, though. Thanks!

[Cucina]

I love tea sandwiches. I concur with all of the above but especially with watercress and butter. I love those things. They were the best part of Thursday Bridge when my mother hosted the "bridge queens" when I was growing up. The leftovers never lasted very long.

Too funny! I was just about to post that this is definitely a girly girl, ladies only thread but had suspected their were a few men out there that had sureptitiously raided the leftover tea sandwiches in their youth and pined for the experience again! What I want to know is whether there are any men out there that have actually made tea sandwiches?

No. No man has ever made one.

Hmmmmm.....source of great amusement. Perhaps we should have a man made tea sandwich contest at Varmint's pig pickin'? What other dainty foods do men love but don't make?

[lovebenton0]

. . .

No. No man has ever made one.

Hmmmmm.....source of great amusement. Perhaps we should have a man made tea sandwich contest at Varmint's pig pickin'? What other dainty foods do men love but don't make?

Can we say mini-quiche?

[phifly04]

I love tea sandwiches. I concur with all of the above but especially with watercress and butter. I love those things. They were the best part of Thursday Bridge when my mother hosted the "bridge queens" when I was growing up. The leftovers never lasted very long.

Too funny! I was just about to post that this is definitely a girly girl, ladies only thread but had suspected their were a few men out there that had sureptitiously raided the leftover tea sandwiches in their youth and pined for the experience again! What I want to know is whether there are any men out there that have actually made tea sandwiches?

No. No man has ever made one.

How bout them Bears!!!lmao
Dave s

[jackal10]

Don't you have the under-butler make them?

[AmbrosiaFood]

My grandfather would make a sandwich spread with bologna, mayonnaise, and sweet pickles; and a few other ingredients.

Yes, but did he cut off the crusts and cut them into dainty pieces or shapes?

Yes, he did. He made them, and other tea sandwiches for my grandmother's church meetings.

[Cucina]

My grandfather would make a sandwich spread with bologna, mayonnaise, and sweet pickles; and a few other ingredients.

Yes, but did he cut off the crusts and cut them into dainty pieces or shapes?

Yes, he did. He made them, and other tea sandwiches for my grandmother's church meetings.

Bless his heart! I hope he passed on the helpful gene to other males in the family!

[Suzanne F]

Nigella does tea today. Only one sandwich -- salmon poached with star anise, then mixed with mayo, ground ginger, and lettuce. Plus two tea-cake recipes.

I got to taste Benedictine (the spread, that is) last week at the preview of the "new" Museum of Modern Art. At least, now I know that's what it was. Other lovely little sandwiches included sliced cucumber, curried chicken salad, watercress, and turkey with the tiniest touch of cranberry sauce. And they all had the proper interior layer of butter, so there were no curling, dry edges. That is so important for tea sandwiches, I believe: that layer of butter before any other filling.

[nessa]

My favorite is cream cheese and pickled ginger. Fresh ginger is great as well.