# Recommend me types of tea sandwiches! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794 "2006-11-17T05:08:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/1 "2006-11-17T05:08:47Z")
Of course I tried to search, but the word “tea” is too short, and “sandwiches” appears in just about every thread, apparently. Anyway, I need to make a variety of girly tea sandwiches for a baby shower, and although I’m set on the concept, I’m interested to hear some ideas for fillings. I’d like there to be a variety, and there should be enough substance to them that along with the other nibbles they’ll constitute a sufficient meal, while the ladies graze and gossip and giggle. I know I’m going to do cucumber sandwiches (of course) and watercress sandwiches (likely with goat cheese instead of cream cheese) and peanut butter and jelly. I should probably also do a salmon or tuna one. I may also do my garlicky-olive tapenade and do some sandwiches with that. Any other ideas for good tea sandwich fillings? ---
**Author:** ![RhapsodyInBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RhapsodyInBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RhapsodyInBlue)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/2 "2006-11-17T08:13:28Z")
Here’s one I’ve always liked, although it doesn’t really go with tea. Take one slice of bread spread with pimento cheese, top that with a second slice of bread spread with deviled ham on top - so that the bread is between the layers of cheese and ham. Top it off with a third slice of bread. Cut off the crusts, and cut the bread into four triangles. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/3 "2006-11-17T08:25:03Z")
Forget all the girly type crap. Big fuck off greasy chip butties will go down a bomb. That’s chip butties as in English chips. ---
**Author:** ![cactus\_waltz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/74df32/32.png) [@cactus\_waltz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cactus_waltz)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/4 "2006-11-17T08:48:28Z")
[QUOTE=Campion] Any other ideas for good tea sandwich fillings? [/QUOTE] I like my dark rye with hummus. Works great with my breakfast tea. ---
**Author:** ![Amblydoper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/fbc32d/32.png) [@Amblydoper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amblydoper)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/5 "2006-11-17T09:09:49Z")
Turkey with cranberry-mayo, garnished with a craisen (dried cranberry). -Mix mayo with enough cranberry sauce to make it tasty. Crab and avocado, garnished with cilantro sprig. -Slice avocado and place in lemon juice for a minute, to prevent it from turning brown. No spread needed, the avocado takes its place Mini BLT - Procuitto, Butter Lettuce, and sliced cherry Tomato. -Plain Mayo will work for a spread, or make a dijon-mayo ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/6 "2006-11-17T12:52:30Z")
Just make sure the bread you use is good, and there is a variety of different kinds (of the bread). I’ve had tea sandwiches made with plain old supermarket bread andit just doesn’t make it – even if the fillings are all different, having the bread the same made the sandwiches _seem_ all the same. One tea sandwich I’m especially fond of is good old raisin bread with slightly-sweetened cream cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/7 "2006-11-17T13:57:03Z")
A good fancy-tea sandwich if you and your guests are partial to seafood: Pumpernickel bread, either cocktail squares or slices cut into rounds with about a 1&1/2 or 2 inch diameter. Spread on a little cream cheese (or other similar spread if you don’t like cream cheese). Place 1 thin slice of cucumber with the seedy middle cut out on each slice of bread. Put a small scoop of crab or other seafood salad (I usually buy it ready-made) into the middle of the cucumber slice, then two shrimps curved around the crab salad. If you have Bay seasoning, you can sprinkle a little on. Garnish the top with a spring of dill or other greenery. ---
**Author:** ![YWalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/6f9a4e/32.png) [@YWalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YWalker)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/8 "2006-11-17T14:08:58Z")
[QUOTE=Jess] One tea sandwich I’m especially fond of is good old raisin bread with slightly-sweetened cream cheese. [/QUOTE] That’s what I came in to suggest. I’m not generally that fond of tea sandwiches, as it all seems a bit frou-frou to me, but a cinnamon-raisin bread with cream cheese (and better yet, add some nuts too) is good. Maybe use commercially prepared honey-walnut cream cheese for ease of preparation. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/9 "2006-11-17T14:16:50Z")
Butter, Vegemite, cheddar cheese. ---
**Author:** ![DeVena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dec6dc/32.png) [@DeVena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeVena)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/10 "2006-11-17T14:36:32Z")
Chicken salad on whole wheat or dark brown bread (the good kind of chicken salad, with nuts and stuff) Another that I love is take a baguette and slice into tiny rounds. Toast the rounds then top with a sun-dried tomato/basil spread. (Dead easy to make. Put sun-dried tomatoes, basil and cream cheese in food processor and whirl away. Also good if you add pine nuts.) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/11 "2006-11-17T17:13:45Z")
Campion - you could always do a sandwich loaf - it’s filling. [Here’s a recipe.](http://www.kraftfoods.com/party-recipes/party_01.html) I made one for a friend’s wedding shower many years ago - {I didn’t decorate it all fancy like that of course) it was a big hit. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/12 "2006-11-17T17:29:08Z")
Smoked salmon, if the budget allows. Deviled anything, if it doesn’t. I recommend Pepperidge “very thin” sliced bread. ---
**Author:** ![Improvisor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/50afbb/32.png) [@Improvisor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Improvisor)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/13 "2006-11-17T17:53:14Z")
[QUOTE=Johnny L.A.] Butter, Vegemite, cheddar cheese. [/QUOTE] Wow. No offense **Johnny LA** , but I think I just vomited a little in my mouth… Vegemite… geeesh. To each their own I guess. 😉 Anyway, back to the OP. I’ve made this in the past and it is quite tasty: [Smoked Turkey with Arugula Mayo](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/101681) . I also ran across this link while Googling for that previous link [Tea Sandwich Recipes](http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/tea/sandwich-recipes.htm) . ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2006, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/14 "2006-11-17T19:49:20Z")
Very thin slice of cucumber with cream cheese, usually on whitebread, I believe. Joe ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/15 "2006-11-18T17:47:43Z")
Thanks, guys. I think we’re going to do about five or six different types, and I agree that the bread is the key. I’ll make sure to pick pretty bread. [QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Smoked salmon, if the budget allows. [/QUOTE] I think it probably will, since I won’t need much. I guess I need to find a deli for this? (Yes, I’m not a fish person. I presume a deli would have some? Or Whole Foods?) Now that’s resolved, I just need to figure out the hot hors d’oeuvres and drinks. And the games, and where everything’s going to go… ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/16 "2006-11-18T18:34:02Z")
Delis will be your best bet for smoked salmon. Try dill mayo for the condiment, and maybe verrry thinly sliced red onion. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/17 "2006-11-18T19:55:47Z")
[QUOTE=Beware of Doug] Delis will be your best bet for smoked salmon. [/QUOTE] You talking lox, or fillets? ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/18 "2006-11-18T20:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=Missy2U] Campion - you could always do a sandwich loaf - it’s filling. [Here’s a recipe.](http://www.kraftfoods.com/party-recipes/party_01.html) I made one for a friend’s wedding shower many years ago - {I didn’t decorate it all fancy like that of course) it was a big hit. [/QUOTE] Um…by “many years ago”, do you mean 1953? That thing is…frightening! How’s about we shuffle it off to [The Gallery of Regrettable Food](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/) and forget this ever happened, mmm’kay? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2006, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-types-of-tea-sandwiches/380794/19 "2006-11-18T22:55:22Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] How’s about we shuffle it off to [The Gallery of Regrettable Food](http://www.lileks.com/institute/gallery/) and forget this ever happened, mmm’kay? 😃 [/QUOTE] Heh. I thought you were linking to [these really scary Weight Watchers recipes](http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html). Perhaps I should serve [this](http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards/jelliedtomatorefresh.html) at the shower? **Beware of Doug** , if I ate fish, that would sound yummy. Dill mayo, red onion, smoked salmon. Thanks.