English Tea Sandwiches
Take tea with these dainty and delicious finger sandwiches!

- Prep time
- 30 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- ½ cucumber (large)
- 4 oz cream cheese (softened)
- lemon zest
- 1 pinch salt
- dill (chopped)
- 6 slices potato bread
- 1 package smoked salmon
- ½ cucumber
- 2 oz cream cheese
- dill (chopped)
- 1 pinch salt
- 6 slices pumpernickel bread
- 4 eggs (hard boiled)
- 2 tablespoons butter (softened)
- 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 1 pinch paprika
- 6 slices potato bread
- 3 chicken breasts (boneless)
- ¼ teaspoon thyme
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 oz cranberries
- 1 sprig watercress
- 1 tablespoon mayonnaise
- 2 teaspoons dijon
- 6 slices potato bread
Instructions
- 1
For the Cranberry Chicken Sandwich:
- 2
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Season chicken breasts with olive oil, salt and thyme. Bake for about 30 minutes. Let cool, rip cooked chicken into roughly 1 ½ inch pieces.
- 3
Halve the cranberries and smash in a bowl. This step is messy!
- 4
In a separate bowl, mix together mayonnaise and dijon mustard.
- 5
Combine cranberries, chicken, mayonnaise mixture until incorporated.
- 6
Butter sliced white bread bread. Add chicken mixture and a layer of watercress. Cut off the crusts and slice into rectangles.
- 7
For the Cucumber Dill Sandwich:
- 8
Chop dill. Combine with softened cream cheese, lemon zest and a pinch of salt. (This mixture will be used again).
- 9
Cut paper thin slices of cucumber.
- 10
Spread cream cheese mixture onto white bread and add cucumbers slices. Cut off crusts, then cut rectangles.
- 11
For the Salmon Sandwich:
- 12
Spread the same cream cheese mixture from the cucumber dill sandwiches on to pumpernickel bread.
- 13
Add a layer of cucumbers, then salmon.
- 14
Cut a circle out of the sandwich.
- 15
Transfer some of the cream cheese mixture to a piping bag and pipe a dollop. Add a dill sprig for garnish.
- 16
For the Egg Sandwich:
- 17
In a bowl, mash hard boiled eggs.
- 18
Chop watercress
- 19
Add butter, mayonnaise, paprika and watercress to a bowl. Mix until combined.
- 20
Butter bread slices. Add egg mixture.
- 21
Cut off crusts. Cut rectangles.