Perfect Cucumber Sandwiches

Name: Perfect Cucumber Sandwiches
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1/2 a very fresh cucumber; sea salt flakes; best butter; 4 slices good quality white bread; white pepper

Joanne @JoanneinBath

Bath, UK

I know this isn't really a recipe, and probably barely what most people would call lunch, but this English Victorian tea time staple is delicious because of its simplicity. The classic time to eat cucumber sandwiches is the afternoon, with a cup of tea, but we had them for lunch with lime cordial after a beautiful dog walk in the sunny countryside.

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Ingredients

2 servings

1/2a very fresh cucumber
sea salt flakes
best butter
4 slicesgood quality white bread
white pepper

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Steps

1

Thinly peel the cucumber.
2

Slice the cucumber thinly, place in a colander or sieve and sprinkle with salt.
3

Thickly butter the bread, I started off with frozen slices so that I could easily spread it with cold butter, and get it good and thick. By the time I'd finished the sandwiches the bread had defrosted.
4

Lay the salted cucumber on kitchen paper and pat gently to remove excess water.
5

Arrange the cucumber on the bread and sprinkle with a little extra salt for crunch, together with a light sprinkling of white pepper, use black if you don't have any but white is traditional.
6

You're meant to cut the crusts off, and I did this for the photograph, but otherwise I'd leave them on. Serve straight away.

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Joanne @JoanneinBath

on May 29, 2016 13:09

Bath, UK

I enjoy cooking mostly because I like eating, but also because it's a great way to relax at the end of the day. I work in book publishing and especially enjoy creating cookbooks written by cooks who love cooking and sharing food rather than creating show stopping dishes that take days to put together. As Nigel Slater would say; 'we are, after all, simply making ourselves something to eat'. I live with my lovely daughter Isobel who rarely pays any kind of compliment but will occasionally admit something I've cooked was quite nice, and our dog Piper, who will eat anything.