There’s no food quite like Cucumber Sandwiches to make you feel like you’re having a proper tea time (except, perhaps, tea). They’re dainty, delicate, mild, but better yet, delicious. They want to make you drink tea, lift your pinkie, and wear a fancy hat. To go along with our Downton Abbey themed get-together where we also had raspberry meringue pie, a summer salad, and egg curry sandwiches, we of course had to feature cucumber sandwiches! I took this recipe right from the The Unofficial Downton Abbey Cookbook: From Lady Mary’s Crab Canapes to Mrs. Patmore’s Christmas Pudding – More Than 150 Recipes from Upstairs and Downstairs (Unofficial Cookbook)
- 1 8oz package cream cheese
- 1/3 cup mayonnaise
- 1 cucumber
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
- 1 tbsp fresh dill
- 5 pieces white bread
- sprigs of dill for garnish
- Soften cream cheese and mix it with the mayonnaise until smooth
- Peel and chop the cucumber
- Chop the dill
- Put salt, pepper, cucumber, dill, and cream cheese mixture together and fold until combined
- Chop pieces of bread in halves (or quarters, depending on how many you want)
- Spread mixture on the half and put together with other half to make sandwich
- Cut the crusts off
- Serve with sprigs of dill atop
- You can make this recipe healthier by making your own mayonnaise, reducing the cream cheese, and subbing the white bread out for a wheat-ier one
