by merrill
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English (seedless) cucumber
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slices white or wheat sandwich bread (preferably Pepperidge Farm Very Thin)
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good quality salted butter, at room temperature
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salt
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freshly ground black pepper
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Peel the cucumber and cut 8 thin rounds. Spread one side of a slice of bread with about 1 teaspoon of butter and arrange the cucumber in overlapping rows over the butter. Sprinkle the cucumber with salt and pepper to taste. Butter the second slice of bread and make a sandwich. Slice off the crusts and cut the sandwich into 3 equal rectangles. Eat, accompanied by a glass of homemade iced tea or white wine.
Ask the hotline about this step!Forget the knife and use your cheese slicer to slice the cucumber. It makes it waferthin - perfect. These should dfinitely be eaten with a nice cuppa tea, preferably Yorkhire tea!
My mother being English, cucumber sandwiches were a mainstay in our home, in college they were a constant, cheap, tasty and it wasn't Ramen soup!
FAt free cream cheese instead of butter and sprinkle with dill weed! Serve on party rye for an elegant snack.
Fat Free. cream cheese instead of butter and sprinkle with dill weed! Make on party rye slices open face for an elegant snack.
Cream cheese and cucumbers -- another match made in heaven!
I make (like my mom & grandma did) the delish cucumber & onion salad too, but I never thought of putting it on bread! Sounds great! Now I'm thinking, add it to a sub...mmmm....
I have and still do make cucumbers and onions in salt, vinegar and honey seasoned with salt and pepper and keep them in the ref. all summer. We make sandwiches with seven grain bread and the cucumbers and onions all summer long. Messy but oh so good.
substitute peanut butter for the butter. the flavor contrast is delightful.
What an interesting idea! I'll have to try it.
Slice Cucumber 1/4 inch slices Toast some white bread slap some helmans mayo and a dash of pepper on it
Great recipe! Cucumber sandwiches have a reputation of being wimpy and only for ladies teas,
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!
I like them with good Mayo (Dukes or homemade) and a sprinkling of Madras curry powder.
Larry Hamby
Try flavouring the butter with lemon juice and zest. Delish!
sheer bliss to chomp on one of these! mainstay snack for recess time at school!
What about a cup of real darjeeling in a bone chine cup with a dash of milk?! English breakfast would be ok too I suppose.
Very cool photo!
Nate and Mary Kate are the authors of the cookbook Feeding the Dragon: A Culinary Travelogue through China with Recipes.
Forget the knife and use your cheese slicer to slice the cucumber. It makes it waferthin - perfect. These should dfinitely be eaten with a nice cuppa tea, preferably Yorkhire tea!