Tea Sandwiches

[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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

[racheld]

No. No man has ever made one.

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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?

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[Lan4Dawg]

I tried making tea sandwiches once. It did not work out well as the bread got soggy and I could never figure out what to do w/ the lemon wedge.

wait for it........wait for it.......where is that rim shot?

truth be told we had tea sandwiches on a restaurant reception menu for about three months and had to remove them b/c there were mostly men in the kitchen and they could not grasp the idea of tea sandwiches. I would get these things stacked about an inch and a half high and filled w/ every thing short of the kitchen sink. As sexist as it sounds occasionally we could find a female who would do a beautiful job w/ them but I was never certain who would make the things or how they would turn out for the parties. Finally I caved and just changed the menu to read, "assortment of open faced mini sandwiches" & let the kitchen play.

[racheld]

Pa-dum-PUMMM!

[joiei]

i have made many and even know how to braid the smoked salmon for that sandwich. Butter first and if you can get unsliced pullmans. presliced white bread is the pits and it is sliced too thick. I think baby arugula and cuke is my favorite. And I only use half the whites to make the egg salad, I like a yolkier filling. Beef and pork taste better on darker breads. And if the occasion is really special, I use caviar as a topping on some of them with a little cream fraiche, onion and capers. I try to balance half open faced and half with top crusts.

[Becca Porter]

My absolute favorite is butter, thinly sliced radishes, coarse salt and pepper. Technically I prefer them on a nice sourdough, but they are still good on dainty white bread. Delicious!

[scordelia]

The secret is Pepperidge Farm Very Thin white or wheat bread. It is the perfect dainty slice and firm enough in texture.

Radish and mint tea sandwiches are very nice and refreshing.

[annieb]

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

My Grandma made this, I loved it as a kid, only she used salad dressing instead of mayonaisse and a little grated onion. Although she was from Michigan, a lot of her cooking was Southern, as her mother was orphaned at about age 8, crossed Lake Superior alone on a steamer to live with her much older (and wealthy) sister in Alpena, MI, where Aunt Liz nor her girls did not cook. When my Great-Grandma married, it was to a train conductor as he was being transferred to No. Alabama, where she learned to cook from a neighbor lady. Burgoo, I still make her fruitcake, some of the best fried chicken.

I've also seen this as a small town funeral food in central Michigan.