For a proper cucumber sandwich...
For a proper cucumber sandwich...
White or brown toast?
Toasted or not?
Anything else I should know about cucumber sandwiches?
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White and un-toasted. Add the mearest smear of mayonnaise, a hint of salt and white pepper, cut the crusts off, and then cut each round into three rectangles to make finger sandwiches.
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Yes, I'd say the removed crusts and tiny sizes are the most distinctive features
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White bread, untoasted, thin sliver of marg, feed them to your auntie with weak tea in a china mug and, for dessert, get out Mr Kipling's French Fancies or a couple of slices of Battenberg. Make yourself a few ham and cheese butties with a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch and a glass of crap pop (probably lemonade).
No substitutions accepted.
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toast
O_o
WTF?!
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Love it :-) TOTP no less. Can't imagine today's pop bands having the guts to do anything like that.
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Cucumber sandwiches require toast. (I'm preferring white now, but I change...)
Especially delightful with tzatziki, bc cucumbers galore!
Perhaps a soft cheese & iceburg lettuce.
kosher salt
ymmv
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Toasted? Wtf?
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Hear me out.... Mayonnaise.
Softest white bread you can find. Sliced cucumber. A sliver of mayo. Cheese or ham slices according to your preference. Or both.
Sliced sideways not diagonally.
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If it has cheese or ham then it's not a cucumber sandwich. It's a cheese sandwich, or a ham sandwich.
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This is easy. Anything that touches cucumber is ruined.
If you insist on making a cucumber sandwich, just remember to chuck the whole thing in the bin before eating it
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I was like this when I was younger. Absolutely hated them. Then my taste receptor that made them disgusting just kind of switched off gradually over time. Apparently this can happen from middle age onward. Maybe wait a while and try again someday. They're also better with salt.
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I'm approaching middle age and still feel this way.
I've never actually found them disgusting, just that they seem to suck the flavour out of anything that's next to them. So many nice experiences eating food have been lessened by including cucumber.
That basically ties in to your last point. They might be fine with enough salt, but they are almost never served that way.
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Hear hear. Cucumber is a plague that ruins anything it touches. I'm glad there are others.
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You're all wrong. White bread, butter, cucumber, salad cream. Cut into quarters.
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There's always one person who puts ranch on everything. Never knew u guys were in the UK too.
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Here's how you make a cucumber sandwich. Get a French baguette, cut it in half like a hoagie, finely dice cucumber and mix it with shredded carrots and diced jalapeno before quick pickling with cilantro, salt, pepper, garlic and lime juice. Let those sit for like 10 minutes. Take some chicken and marinate it with soy sauce, garlic, ginger, etc. Broil that shit, shred it up, stuff into sandwich and top with pickled veg
Finish by cutting some mayonnaise with sriracha and a bit of lime juice until it's drizzling consistency (salt and pepper to taste), and drizzle over the top of sandwich, top with more cilantro
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That's a bit like saying: you make a cucumber sandwich by crisping up some duck, steam some pancakes, put some duck on a pancake, then cut up cucumber and spring onions to sprinkle on the duck before using hoisin sauce as the paste to stick your rolled up pancakes together.
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sure
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If you went into an English tea room for afternoon tea and they served you that monstrosity and claimed it was a cucumber sandwich, you'd be perfectly within your rights to burn the entire place to the ground and not a single judge in the country would convict you.
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