- Hey guys, today I'm showing you how to make
an assortment of classic English tea sandwiches.
First off is a chicken-salad sandwich.
I started off by baking a chicken breast
that I just seasoned with a little bit of salt
and dried thyme and then coated with olive oil.
I pounded it out so it would bake a little bit more quickly
and then I shredded it.
Here are some fresh cranberries, you can use frozen,
just defrost them, it doesn't really matter.
And we're just going to chop them up
so they're in more manageable bite-sized little pieces.
Good, so we're just going to cut them in half
and maybe a little bit more if they're larger.
I'm going to add about a cup
of chopped cranberries to my chicken.
I love the color of that already, so good.
Now we're going to add some nice mayonnaise,
this is just to bind it together
and I would say mellow the flavors out
bu this isn't a really spicy dish, so...
Just a tablespoon, maybe a tablespoon and a half.
You can add more later if you want.
And then for a little bit of a kick,
I'm adding maybe two teaspoons, or so, of Dijon mustard.
Whenever you're using just a few ingredients,
try and get the best ones possible.
If you use a mayonnaise that has a lot of preservatives
in it, it's going to come through in this,
nobody wants that.
All right, now just a little bit of salt
and you can add some pepper too.
For this sandwich I'm using just a nice potato bread
I like the texture and it's really unobtrusive,
you can use a white bread, wheat bread
whatever you'd like, maybe not pumpernickel though.
All right try not to overfill the sandwiches.
I know it's going to be a test
but it's really difficult to cut them
and have them stay in tact when
they're brimming full of fillings.
I'm going to finish this sandwich off
with this beautiful watercress.
You can use arugula if you wanted
but this is a traditional peppery green that
really adds a little bit of bite to an otherwise
mellow and creamy sandwich.
This is optional but I'm going
to give the top of the bread just a little light buttering,
then we're going to assemble our sandwiches.
If you are just making a delicious sandwich,
you do not need to remove the crusts.
But for a tea, crusts are not happening.
So, I usually just snack on these
since I'm always hungry.
A piece of bread will give me four bars.
You could do triangles if you like,
circles if you want to waste all of the food,
but bars is what I'm choosing.
My favorite sandwich, maybe, is just a plain egg sandwich.
I don't know what it is.
I think its just the creaminess
and the subtlety of all the flavors
mixes perfectly with a nice tea.
So I'm taking four hard boiled eggs,
and they're just hard boiled,
right on the cusp of being soft boiled.
And I'm going to start slicing them up.
(knife chopping)
Okay, that's a good start,
that'll get mashed up even more
as we start on our extra ingredients.
Things like two tablespoons of soft butter,
and do one tablespoon of mayonnaise,
start mixing,
and just a pinch of paprika really light
gives a nice smoky taste.
It's nearly done but I'm going to add in
just a little bit of chopped watercress
one for color and also for a slight pepperiness as well
just the lightest of buttering
to hold it all together.
(clattering utensils)
Time to close them up.
(light music)
And give them a final cut.
There are no crusts in afternoon tea.
Cucumber sandwiches can be as easy
or complicated as you want.
Mine is going to be almost a classic,
starting off with a clean cucumber that I'm slicing into
fairly thin slices.
I left the skin on. You can remove it if you like
but I like the contrast.
Okay so now I'm going to flavor the cream cheese.
I softened it a bit so it's at room temperature
and I'm just going to grate a little bit of zest into there
maybe like a teaspoon.
A little bit of salt.
So I'm going to take a couple of sprigs of dill
and give it a chop, mix it into the cream cheese
and then have a little bit on top for garnish as well.
I'm using wheat bread for this sandwich,
any bread is fine.
So layer our cucumbers on there.
(light cheerful music)
Don't double up your cucumbers
because the sandwiches will fall apart.
Our salmon sandwich is going to have pumpernickel bread.
You can use different ones
but salmon is a really strong flavor,
so I like a nice strong powerful bread to go with it.
I'm using the same cream cheese lemon dill mixture
and I'm just going to slather some on.
Some very thin cucumber pieces.
all finished off with some beautiful smoked salmon.
Okay now let's cut these.
(light cheerful music)
I transferred some of the dill cream cheese mixture
to a piping bag and we're just going to finish it off
with a little garnish of dill.
Can't wait to have these with a cup of darjeeling,
my favorite tea.
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