Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
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- Earthmaiden
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Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
I was reading an interview with Jenny Hanley who said that after eating a delicious cucumber sandwich at a Buckingham Palace garden party she would never make them without adding a little chopped mint again. I had a similar moment when visiting a relative some years ago who served cucumber sandwiches using cream cheese instead of butter.
As it's a week of celebratory teas, what little secrets can you share regarding little touches to sandwich fillings, breads, favourite jams, scones and cakes to make an afternoon tea extra special?
As it's a week of celebratory teas, what little secrets can you share regarding little touches to sandwich fillings, breads, favourite jams, scones and cakes to make an afternoon tea extra special?
- liketocook
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
I like to add a pinch of cayenne pepper or a few drops of Tabasco to egg mayo.
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At this time of year snipped chives go into my egg mayo. At other times of the year I would use a smidgeon celery salt in the mix ...
or a smidge of mild curry powder and a smear of mango chutney on the bread.
Tuna mayo has a generous squirt of fresh lemon juice.
Smoked mackerel pate also has lemon and cayenne.
or a smidge of mild curry powder and a smear of mango chutney on the bread.
Tuna mayo has a generous squirt of fresh lemon juice.
Smoked mackerel pate also has lemon and cayenne.
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- Earthmaiden
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
Not very elegant for afternoon tea (nice though).
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A slight deviation, but does anyone serve filled ‘bridge rolls’ any more? Or halved bridge rolls with a topping of sandwich filling?
- Stokey Sue
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
Bridge rolls aka finger rolls are always associated in my mind with cricket teas
Egg and cress were compulsory but there were other fillings too
They appeared at children’s parties halved, covered with Dairylea or sandwich spread and fitted with a sail of ham (or luncheon meat ) on a cocktail stick
I think they feel less elegant now everyone thinks of them as hot dog rolls, which would now be easier to buy than the slightly smaller finger roll I suspect
Going back to egg and cress, my mind was blown when I discovered they could, possibly should traditionally, be made with watercress rather than the little seedlings
ETA I see M&S do in fact do small mini finger rolls which would be good for a posh tea, but the description mentions “mini submarine rolls” https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-8-mi ... lsrc=aw.ds
Egg and cress were compulsory but there were other fillings too
They appeared at children’s parties halved, covered with Dairylea or sandwich spread and fitted with a sail of ham (or luncheon meat ) on a cocktail stick
I think they feel less elegant now everyone thinks of them as hot dog rolls, which would now be easier to buy than the slightly smaller finger roll I suspect
Going back to egg and cress, my mind was blown when I discovered they could, possibly should traditionally, be made with watercress rather than the little seedlings
ETA I see M&S do in fact do small mini finger rolls which would be good for a posh tea, but the description mentions “mini submarine rolls” https://www.ocado.com/products/m-s-8-mi ... lsrc=aw.ds
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Have to say I really don't think egg & cress sarnies are the same with watercress. For me, it has to be the little seedlings. Watercress, to my mind, has too strong a flavour to compliment hard boiled eggs (though it works brilliantly partnered with salmon). Whilst we're on the subject, the egg yolks should be just a wee bit off hard boiled too.
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- Pepper Pig
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Can you still get Shippam’s fish paste? All the teas of my childhood seemed to consist of paste sandwiches and jam tarts.
- WWordsworth
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Bird's bakery is a local chain.
Their small dinner rolls are pretty much a bridge roll.
Their pork pies are the bee's knees.
Their small dinner rolls are pretty much a bridge roll.
Their pork pies are the bee's knees.
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Oh you can still get Shipphams, though they do less varieties and they aren’t sealed with a piece of razor wire any longer
- Earthmaiden
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I came across bridge rolls recently when popping into a corner shop desperate to buy some kind of bread. Hadn't seen them for years. Funnily enough, I was looking at some notes in my mother's old recipe book recently which would have been written at around the time of the Coronation. They used to have quite successful parties and she noted that for 12 people she would have allowed 36 open bridge roll savouries amongst other things (including 2 x 1/6 blocks of Walls ice cream and Kilner jars of gooseberries and apricots). I always associate bridge rolls with fish paste.
Has anyone here tried cucumber sandwiches containing mint? I don't think you'd want much.
I agree that watercress isn't great in egg sandwiches. I think it's too 'big'. I am happy with egg and cress, smoked salmon and cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches. Thinly sliced bread, not the doorsteps a lot of hotels serve these days.
When I visited Buckingham Palace (as a tourist), they were serving the most exquisite-looking frasier cakes at the cafe. I really wish I had had one.
Has anyone here tried cucumber sandwiches containing mint? I don't think you'd want much.
I agree that watercress isn't great in egg sandwiches. I think it's too 'big'. I am happy with egg and cress, smoked salmon and cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches. Thinly sliced bread, not the doorsteps a lot of hotels serve these days.
When I visited Buckingham Palace (as a tourist), they were serving the most exquisite-looking frasier cakes at the cafe. I really wish I had had one.
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I used to buy Shipham's for my mother. Along with potted beef and similar. I used to like potted beef. A bit strangeley given where we lived, there was a tiny Bowler's potted beef factory not far from where I grew up (I suspect it was a few (old, as in when this was still Derbyshire countryside) cottages knocked together - it was converted back to three or four such, years ago. You could smell it half a mile away.
I used to make cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches. It's probably a bit infra dig, but I like to add a smidgeon of salad cream to egg mayo. It makes them a bit less 'rich' and I suppose adds a touch of sweetness.
I used to make cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches. It's probably a bit infra dig, but I like to add a smidgeon of salad cream to egg mayo. It makes them a bit less 'rich' and I suppose adds a touch of sweetness.
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We used to have egg and tomato sandwiches…..with salad cream, not mayo. Maybe a northern thing?
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We use a mix of mayo and salad cream with eggs Herbi … I think eggs need that bit more acidity.
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I always use salad cream in egg sandwiches, mayo is too bland (I have to admit to being fond of salad cream anyway!).
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Salad cream is a very wonderful thing … as real Foodies we should know.
Good mayo has its uses of course, for some purposes nothing else will do … but for egg salad sarnies and similar it has to be salad cream.
Good mayo has its uses of course, for some purposes nothing else will do … but for egg salad sarnies and similar it has to be salad cream.
- herbidacious
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I do love salad cream... We never had mayonnaise in the house when I was a child.
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Coleslaw adds a nice crunch to a cheese sandwich.
A smidgeon of black pepper lifts a bowl of strawberries.
A smidgeon of black pepper lifts a bowl of strawberries.
- ChinchillaLady
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Re: Jubilee Cucumber Sandwiches and Other Treats
I always make potato salad with half mayo and half saald cream for sharpness too.
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