British Tea Sandwiches

First of all let me just say that anything British is awesome. British food, British accents, British tv shows, and so much more. Most of my favorite actors and authors are British. British Tea Sandwiches is just another word for Cucumber Sandwiches. In England they are a favorite among many households. Tea Sandwiches are very delicate and refreshing to the taste buds. The basic Tea Sandwich is two thin slices of a Pullman Loaf, thin layer of butter spread on the loaf to keep the juices from the cucumber making the loaf soggy, and paper thin slices of cucumber sprinkled with salt. In America we like to slather them with cream cheese mixed with dill and garlic powder. I prefer British style even though I am a big fan of cream cheese. For my Tea Sandwiches I used a sourdough bread. It was very delicious, but hard to cut. A Pullman Loaf  is the preferable choice. It's a dense-textured  white bread that is also sometimes called the sandwich loaf. In my opinion there is no set recipe for Tea Sandwiches. All I did with mine was cut the bread into squares and triangles. I then put a thin layer of butter on both cut pieces. The cucumber I cut into paper thin slices to be put between two pieces of bread. The butter is for making sure that the cucumber juice doesn't soak the bread clean through. As the British say: That's a brill idea... Oh, and don't forget to peel the cucumber. I peeled my cucumber with a potato peeler, and then sliced it. As far as how much cucumber to cut that depends on how many you are making sandwiches for. When you cut paper thin you can get a lot out of one cucumber. Something also not to forget, is if you're going to do British style is to cut the crust off of the bread.  Well, since there is no recipe then I leave it up to your imaginations. 

Cheerio.