Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats

[Seatallan Profile]

I always make potato salad with half mayo and half saald cream for sharpness too.

I use a combi of mayo and low fat Greek yog for the same reason.

[PatsyMFagan Profile]

I do love salad cream... We never had mayonnaise in the house when I was a child.

Nor did we ... My Mum would make my sister and me, little plate salads with chopped lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, finely sliced spring onions (as they were then called;) ) and diced dairylea cheese ... then salad cream over the top. We loved it and it was my Mum's way of getting us to enjoy salad stuff.

I already had a couple of had boiled eggs in the fridge and am now sitting eating in a sarni, mashed up with salad cream and topped with sliced tomatoes

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Salad cream is the right thing for “savoury cheese” - grated cheddar, carrot and celery with a touch of onion, seasoning and enough salad cream to bind

Having only mayo the other day I added a slug of American yellow mustard, that worked well

A problem with making posh sandwiches is that the slices of sliced bread have got thicker, thin cut vanished from the market years ago, I remember discussing on the BBC board. So you have to be very nifty with a bread knife, though I think the slices produced by the machines in baker’s shops or M&S are a more useful thickness m and better bread too

[Uschi Profile]

Coleslaw adds a nice crunch to a cheese sandwich.

A smidgeon of black pepper lifts a bowl of strawberries.

I sometimes put raw Sauerkraut or Krautsalat on cheese sandwiches. It has a nice crunch.


Mayonaise and salad cream always had me puzzled. Mayonaise over here tastes different in any case.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

When I got the (part-time) caterer in for Chris's wake she said she always bought the sandwich platters in from either Wenzel's or Costco because they did them much better than she did!

[Pepper Pig Profile]

As it currently looks like I'm going to be on my own could you all give me your best Coronation Chicken recipes please. I love it but haven't made it for years.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

I have made it differently every time I have made it but Felicity’s version is pretty much what I’d do - poached chicken, half mayo with good yogurt, mango chutney

I wouldn’t bother with the apricots, I’d chop the chutney (Geeta’s is pretty chunky) and I’d replace the cinnamon in the poaching liquid with half a star anise so the stock would be nice in a noodle soup

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... SApp_Other

[Suffs Profile]

I agree ... my usual version is based pretty much on Felicity's ... although I use the 'second half' of a chicken that has been 'pot-roasted' in a Crock-pot with some aromatics but little or no added liquid. I wouldn't use home-made mayo either ... I find Sainsbug's lemon mayo perfectly acceptable.

[MariaK Profile]

Didn't know there was a "Sandwich week".

https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/colle ... dium=email

If you want something else apart from cucumber sandwiches here's their
Sandwich recipe collection

https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/colle ... ch-recipes

I like the look of the anchovy butter and radish open sandwich

https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recip ... ovy-butter

Salad cream: no thank you, far too brash. If making egg sandwiches, eggs mayo etc I add a little mustard to the mayonnaise & sometimes some finely diced mini pickled onions and /or a dribble of the liquid.

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Chives are good with egg mayo

[Amyw Profile]

I like finely chopped green pepper or celery with egg mayo to break up the creaminess a bit