Mamta's Kitchen - A Family Cookbook
sandwiches
roast beef, gherkins, horseradish and red onion.
cream cheese, dates, walnuts you can also add pineapple if you like
Mashed hardboiled egg, mayo, gherkin and asparagus
Are these ideas for adding on this recipe collection; Sanwich Selection?
If you are reviewing the sandwiches page, two of my favourites perhaps worthy of consideration are
- Stilton, slices of cooked beetroot with horseradish sauce
- Egg mayonnaise with slices of salami or with a few tinned anchovies (a sort of Scotch Woodcock!)
- A tip if making the classic "cucumber sandwiches with the crusts cut off" for an English tea party is to add lots of pepper but never any salt, which would cause the cucumber slices to degorge making the sandwiches quickly soggy.
Best wishes, Winton
Hello Winton. I have added your first two suggestion to the sandwich selection.
I have also taken the liberty to write down the cucumber sandwich recipe on this site with your name on it, as it was your suggestion that reminded me that this recipe was not already here and it is your idea about not using salt that told me why mine get soggy after a while, though I do sweat cucumber slices and the towel dry them. I hope this okay? I have written it as i would make it, but with your idea. Please take a look and let me if you feel okay about it, if this is how you would write it, and send me any/all corrections via the contact link; Cucumber sandwich.
Mamta
speaking of blue cheese... we had burgers the other day and I made a blue cheese sauce with peppers,onions,celery and garlic in there... letting people sample it on some strips of toast to see if they wanted it on the burgers.... all the grandchildren joined in and wanted more !.... would never have thought they would be on blue cheese so young !
Steve
Hi Mamta
The cucumber sandwich recipe looks great - although should be accredited to you - I only gave the tip of not using salt! I certainly agree with variation of using cream cheese instead of butter, in fact I rarely put butter in sandwiches finding a spread of mayonnaise or cream cheese far more acceptable. If using butter I follow my Grandmother's instructions to spread the bread with butter and then with a reverse swipe of the knife to take off as much as possible!
Flying off at a tangent this reminds me of Mrs. Beeton's instructions for a Victorian picnic, now available online:
http://www.mrsbeeton.com/40-chapter40.html (paragraphs 2149-2152, at the end)
Luckily (after all that food) she also gives tips on First Aid at home, including "How to Bleed" the patient, but readers please do not attempt to try this at home!
http://www.mrsbeeton.com/43-chapter43.html (paragraphs 2605-2606)
Given your background Mamta, can we now hope for a page of medical tips for incidences occurring in the kitchen? LOL!
Hello Steve I often put any stale blue cheese in my cheese sauce, takes simple macaroni cheese to another level!
Hi Winton
Your grandma?s tip added now ;-)! Cream cheese is lovely but it is not the English Cucumber Sandwich, is it ;-0!
Nah, no medical page here. What do the doctors know anyway, grandma?s indigestion recipes work best. I bet they had a lot of that (indigestion) in Mrs. Beeton?s days, those food lists are huge.
I have people coming round for dinner on Saturday and have just come back from Sainsbury?s*, and my shopping is only minute amount, compared to her lists!
*I prepare and do some cooking the day before, curries often taste better the next day.
Just sent another recipe for a Tuna Mayo sandwich to you ! :-)
of course with photos.... lol
Steve
I think this goes beyond the normal realms of what a sandwich is supposed to be...ie something relatively quick and easy...
as it starts off by making the bread rolls its probably beyond what most people are willing to do... lol
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=1886715&l=464a88c43a&id=759322738
Steve
The links don't like becoming clickable for things like facebook pictures but if you copy and paste it, it works? (its possible you have copied it with an extra space at the end of it which stops it working ?)
Steve