Afternoon Tea Party Sandwiches

No tea party would be complete without some of those little sandwiches with the crusts cut off.  These are a few of the simplest sandwich recipes we like to use at our tea parties.  Simple, but tasty. 

Almond Mushroom Chicken & Cream Cheese
(There's the ubiquitous cream cheese, I know, but I can't help it, I love cream cheese.)

2 cups finely chopped chicken (breast is best)
2 tbsp Finely chopped almond slivers
2 tbsp minced mushrooms
1-2 tbsp mayonnaise
Dash of salt to taste
Mix all ingredients together in a bowl.  Spread cream cheese on one side of bread, and spread chicken mixture on top.  Cut into triangles and arrange on platter.

Mom's Egg Salad
4 hard boiled eggs, chopped finely
2 tbsp mayonnaise
2 tsp yellow mustard
2 tsp finely minced onion
Looks nice (and tastes good) with rye bread, sliced into triangles.

Havarti Garlic Delight
(This is actually your basic cheese and tomato, but using creamy Havarti cheese makes it special.)
Thinly sliced havarti cheese
Tomato slices (thin)
1/4 tbsp minced garlic
1 cup butter or margarine, softened
Lettuce pieces - any kind of lettuce

Mix together garlic and butter until soft and creamy.  Lightly spread on one side of bread, and place cheese slices on top.  Place tomato slices on cheese, and top with bread slice lightly spread with mayo.  These are delicious served warm.  Place in oven at 300 for about 10 minutes, just long enough to lightly toast the top of the bread and soften the cheese.  Yum!  If you're worried about the fat content of havarti and dieting and such, you might want to just use a slice of swiss, or eliminate the cheese altogether, but that doesn't sound like much fun to me.

Regarding Bread
You can use any kind of bread for these sandwiches, it doesn't have to be thinly sliced.  But thinly sliced is nice, if you can find it.  One thing we've tried is buying unliced bread, but that's a lot of work, and unless you're practiced at bread slicing, you end up with uneven slices. Some stores with bakeries will slice the bread for you.  Ask for 1/4 inch slices.  If you're in the UK, you can also buy some Hovis no-crust bread and eliminate one step - find a Somerfield store near you, or order online through Tesco.

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Comments

[Toronto Tea Leaf Reader]

Great website; I send our organizers to your site to get some ideas about Nosh at their Tea Parties. :)

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We are currently reading in Toronto, Vancouver, Victoria, and Montreal; however, we are expanding into other areas as well.

Keep drinking the tea!!

[Jax]

hi there im a banqueting ass manager and our Gm wants us to improve our hight tea satation, and we have run out of ideas we would like it if you could give us some good suggestions to improve it we work in a 4* hotel in South Africa and would be great if some one could helpl us out???
PLEASE

[Nona Nita]

I have used the quick bread mixes from the supermarket in the shaped baking tubes (Pampered Chef sells them among other vendors). If you spray them with oil ahead of time, they slide out easily. If you wait until they cool a bit, it is easy to cut the slices thinly and strait with a sharp knife, using the tube itself as a guide. Slip a bit out, slice...slip a bit out slice. Very festive and surprisingly, very tasty.

[Alex]

Could you post more things? I'd love some new recipies! :)

[Christine]

Bex, no I don't think they ship to the U.S. We 'mericans still have to shift for ourselves. :)

[Bex]

Tesco?! I wish I could still get a Tesco they're across the pond! Oh Tesco and nice little Irish cheese sangwiches. I can't eat them here I might choke on the idea.
But seriously, I don't even think that tesco ships to america does it?

[Cindy W.]

Oooooh, that havarti garlic sandwich sounds great -- especially with a nice malty assam (or perhaps a good and smoky lapsang).

Thanks for posting the combination!

[David]

The egg salad and "Havarti Garlic Delight" sound great! I'll throw one of my bread mixes from the freezer in the bread maker and set the timer before I head out. Fresh bread to make some cool sandwiches. Just the thing to look forward to when I get in later.

Thanks!