Recipes / Salmon Spread Sandwich on dark Rhy Bread / Tea Sandwich

Internet friends, as mentioned on Talk time Tuesday I promised you guys I would post several sandwich related posts in honor of National Sandwich Month. Today I wanted to share a salmon spread recipe for everyone. The photo above is lightly toasted dark rye bread with salmon spread, a bit of lettuce mix, mayonnaise and mustard. 

The sandwich would work for a simple lunch time sandwich, or it would work for as a fancy tea sandwich for a teatime luncheon.

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Salmon Spread Recipe

Salmon Spread (for tea sandwiches)

• 1 large can of salmon
• 1 pkg of cream cheese
• 1 "splash" of pickle juice (approx. 1 tbsp)

Mix the salmon into softened cream cheese with a fork, until smooth.

Add a splash of pickle juice to give it a kick of taste.

Spread onto bread.

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Smoked Salmon Sandwiches

• 1 cup soft cream cheese
• 20 slices bread, your choice
• 1/2 cup capers
• 12 ounces thin-sliced smoked salmon
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Black pepper

Spread the cream cheese on 1 side of each slice of bread. Dot with capers. Arrange the smoked salmon on 10 of the bread slices and brush with lemon juice. Pepper generously. Top with the other 10 slices spread thinly with butter, remove the crusts and cut. Makes 40 tea sandwiches or 30 fingers.

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Sandwich Tips in general:

• Freezing the bread before cutting/ cutting cold bread is much easier.
  

• Spread filling while sandwich is still stiff from being froze (slightly thawing out) it makes for easier handling.
  

• If a recipe calls for a bit of pickle juice; try some with sweet pickle juice and some with dill pickle juice.
  

• If the recipe calls for one slice of bread spread with a thin layer of butter; the butter of choice is usually Unsalted butter. Butter should be at room temperature before spreading / less of a chance for bread tearing.
  

• To cut down on sandwiches becoming limp and soggy, spread the butter to the edge of the bread.
  

• Sandwich presentation: the outer crust is cut off of most tea sandwiches and cut into triangles or long finger shapes. Many times, sandwiches made with seafood (shrimp, crab, salmon etc.) it's common for the sandwiches to be cut with fish shaped cookie cutters to give the guests a reminder that it's seafood

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This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses some material from Wikipedia/article Tea Sandwich©/and other related pages. / gone-ta-pott / Top Photo: by amanky flickr(license)