Need great, yet inexpensive recipe for tea sandwiches

[gillenkl]

I have to make tea sandwiches for the teachers appreciation luncheon. I'm making some that are chicken salad but was looking for a 2nd recipe - something that would taste great, but isn't too expensive to make.

 

[swilshire]

How about egg salad. That's one of my favorites.

Or you might want something that isn't salady. Ham and cheese or turkey and cheese might fit the bill.

Or something vegetarian might be in order.

Sheila

 

[kehouse]

kroger and wal-mart both sell little frozen tea biscuits. i like to get those and go to the deli and get some already cooked county ham, sliced thin and fill the biscuits. a pound of the ham goes a long way.

 

[Psychodisney]

I always like the roast beef/cucumber/horseradish combination.

 

[donac]

I had this sandwich when we had tea at the GF.

Take dark heavy bread, spread with gorganzola spread and layer on sliced pears. Fold and cut.

 

[antmaril]

I just went to a "Tea" on Sunday with friends. They gave us the recipes for everything that was served. These are the sandwiches recipes:

Egg and Cheese Filling
Mash three hard cooked eggs with a fork and blend cheese which has been grated finely. Add a drop of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper and enough mayonnaise to moisten for spreading. (The recipe doesn't say what kind of cheese - I think they used cheddar.)

Cream Cheese and Pineapple Sandwiches
Chop slices of pineapple and mix with cream cheese. Add pineapple juice if cream cheese needs to be softened. Spread between buttered slices of bread and cut into shapes desired.

Peanut Butter and Banana Tea-Sandwich Filling
Mash one small banana into 1/2 cup of peanut butter adding a little lemon juice if desired for tartness.

"California" Chicken Spread
Mash one can of tuna fish with one cup of mustard pickle until well blended. Spread on dark bread.

Lobster & Cucumber Sandwiches
Cut lobster meat (I think you could use faux crab for this) finely enough to spread well, moisten with melted butter, add cucumber finely chopped and mix all together with mayonnaise or home cooked dressing and salt, pepper and paprika. Cucumber gives a nice variation from celery.

Roquefort Spread
Using equal parts of Roquefort and cream cheese, mash together well with a fork, moisten with sweet cream and add chopped pecan meats before spreading. This is best used on dark breads.

All of these sandwiches were very good and just what you would expect at a tea.

 

[Gigi22]

You bring back some very fond memories. Do you do "rolled sandwiches" in your area? You need to order horizontally-sliced sandwich bread, and make the sandwiches when the bread is one day old, cut the crust off the short ends to start. Butter the bread. Spread with peanut butter, and lay a banana along a crustless short end. Roll the bread around the banana. Some other fillings we used: cream cheese, with red maraschino cherries. Cheez whiz with sweet gherkins. Cream cheese with sweet gherkins. You roll each long sandwich in saran and refrigerate. These are a bit fiddly to do, but you get 6-8 pinwheel sandwiches per slice--and they are fairly inexpensive, and very pretty. All you have to do is make sure your spreads and butter are at room temp. You cut up the sandwiches into individual slices about an hour before serving, and cover with saran--because they dry out fast. Super yummy!

 

[hedge333]

I do a pinwheel sort of thing that is good and really cheap. You take large tortillas, spread onion and chive cream cheese on them, lay down thin slices of deli ham, and then spread roasted red peppers (home made or from a jar) roll and refrigerate for about an hour. Then slice. They are pretty and yummy.

 

[katied]

Cucumber Sandwiches -

You take 8 oz of cream cheese and mix with Italian dressing mix (the dry stuff). Let it sit overnight.

Take 1 loaf of white bread - one without lots of air pockets, and cut out small circles (you can probably find something to help do this, like a shot glass). Plan to get 3 - 4 circles per slice to minimize waste.

Take one cucumber, peal, and then run a fork down the sides (to make a series of parallel lines). Slice.

Then let the cream cheese sit out about 30 minutes, spread on bread, top with cucumber, and sprinkle with dry or fresh chopped dill.

This should make about 50 small circle sandwiches.

 

[Purseval]

See above, cucumber sandwiches are a staple at English Teas.

 

[micheleq]

Another super easy version of cucumber sandwiches:

Cut white bread in circles (use a juice glass or something small to cut out/measure)

Spread with mayo

Add a slice of an english (hothouse) cucumber

Lightly sprinkle with Lawry's seasoned salt

Viola! I used to work for a caterer and people go wild over this. Once in a blue moon I'll make a cucumber sandwich (on wheat) for lunch for myself!

 

[floridascgirl]

Don't forget pimento cheese sandwiches.

 

[Tarheel Tink]

"California" Chicken Spread
Mash one can of tuna fish with one cup of mustard pickle until well blended. Spread on dark bread.

All sounded so good! I'm not familiar with mustard pickle; is it a mustard blend with relish in it?

Don't forget pimento cheese sandwiches.

I just knew another southern girl would beat me to it!

 

[tar heel]

For a tea, I would do cucumber sandwiches. Not only are they traditional, but you've provided something vegetarians would eat. Pimento cheese would also appeal to me, but it doesn't to everyone. I wouldn't do egg salad or tuna salad b/c they are so smelly.