by Maria Teresa Jorge
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12
slices of good white sandwich bread or brioche
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2 tablespoons
salted butter at room temperature (if not available use normal butter and add a spinkle of salt)
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1 bunch
watercress sprouts or lamb's lettuce
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6
very thin slices of turkey breats
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1/2
cucumber
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1 handful
green young salad leaves for decoration
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Wash and dry the watercress sprouts. These sprouts are very mild in flavour and have nothing to do with the taste of grown watercress that can be quite piquant. If you can't find the sprouts, I suppose the nearest taste would be lamb's lettuce. Keep in a clean kitchen tea towel.
Ask the hotline about this step!Wash the tender and smaller leaves of a lettuce. Pat dry in a kitchen tea towel and set aside.
Ask the hotline about this step!Wash and peel the cucumber so you have thin stripes of dark green peel left. Cut the cucumber in paper thin slices and put on a clean kitchen tea towel to absorb the water.
Ask the hotline about this step!Trim the crust off the white sandwich bread, butter each slice. You really have to use salted butter to give the special flavour. If you don't have it just use normal butter and sprinkle a tiny bit of salt on the butter.
Ask the hotline about this step!On top of the butter side add 4 or 5 slices of cucumber, one very thin breat of turkey slice some watercress sprouts and cover with the other slice, butter side down. Press to adhere and cut in 2 triangles.
Ask the hotline about this step!Serve 2 triangles on each plate with some fresh green lettuce and a baby tomato cut in half. Serve for afternoon tea. Also they are especially nice for tea parties and children's birthday parties. For children cut the traingles once more so you have really small snadwiches.
Ask the hotline about this step!Actually, this is a totally old fashioned British standard tea sandwich. It's only in recent years that they started making bla, bla, bla sandwiches. My husband'ss aunt who is English and 96 years old, always makes turkey and cucumber sandwiches when we go there. So I suppose to English people this would be rather boring and monotonous but I absolutely love them, especially with the salted butter and a rich white sandwich bread, no crusts, I could eat them every day!
Mollie is the best-selling author of many (mostly) vegetarian cookbooks, including the original Moosewood Cookbook, The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, and a trilogy of cookbooks for kids. Her most recent title is Get Cooking : 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen.
What a fun twist on tea sandwiches!