Extend your pinky in today’s salute to Tea Sandwiches! Occasionally, when I am very lucky, one of my exquisitely talented and proper young lady friends will host a High Tea, complete with clotted cream, lemon curd, and frocks. On these occasions, we are never lacking in adorable and tiny tea sandwiches, cut into proper triangles and with nary a crust in sight. The most popular of these is the cucumber sandwich. The general formula is so:
Fancy white or wheat bread, spread with butter or cream cheese (occasionally an herb or two is mixed into the cream cheese; I enjoy mint or dill), with thin slices of cucumber in the middle. Sandwiches are then cut into little triangles and eaten in a minimum of ten dainty bites per triangle.
Delightful!
-Molly
