History Cookbook: Cucumber (and Mint) Sandwiches
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Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: None
Number of servings: Makes 4 rounds
Serving suggestions: Serve with freshly made tea or lemonade.

Preparation Time: 15 minutes
Cooking Time: None
Number of servings: Makes 4 rounds
Serving suggestions: Serve with freshly made tea or lemonade.
Cucumber sandwiches were often served as part of a formal afternoon tea. They had been very fashionable for the upper classes in the Edwardian era and had now become part of ordinary people's afternoon tea.
Lyon's Corner Houses were a popular place for people to go and have tea, scones and sandwiches. This recipe comes from a former employee of Lyons, Mrs Olive Bloomfield.
Ingredients
- 8 slices of white bread, sliced thinly
- 1 oz butter
- 16-18 mint leaves
- the juice of half a lemon (2 tablespoons roughly)
- half a cucumber
Equipment
- Small bowl
- Bread knife
- Butter knife
- Peeler
- Plate
Making and cooking it

- Marinade the mint leaves in the lemon juice for a few minutes
- Cut the bread into thin slices and butter each side with butter
- Remove the crusts making sure the slices are square
- First wash the cucumber
- Then peel the rind into a ‘stripe’ all around the fruit like a stick of rock
- Then slice very thin
- Put 5 pieces of cucumber on one slice of the bread like the number 5 on a dice and lay two mint leaves over the top
- Place another slice of the bread on top
- Cut the sandwich into four triangles and display on a plate with a sprig of cucumber and a mint leaf

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Name: Jasemin | 18th July 2016 |
Good to find an expert who knows what he's talking about! |
Name: Isha | 22nd November 2014 |
wow this recipe was very easy! I loved the sandwiches they were amazing!!!!! |
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