Lovely little sandwiches
"Olive and cream cheese, ham and cheese, orange marmalade and pecan, cream cheese and cherries, egg salad, cucumber and mint..."all made elegant fillings to spread on buttered bread. Needless to say, whether the breads were white, whole wheat or nutty, they all had their crusts removed before the sandwiches were sliced into dainty fingers, diamonds or squares."
1 loaf "very thin" sliced white
bread
1 loaf "very thin" sliced wheat
bread
12 ounces of cream cheese
2-3 tablespoons milk
1 cucumber, thinly
sliced (preferably english "seedless" type)
1 cup of egg salad
1/2 pound
thinly sliced ham
8 ounces (1 cube) butter, softened
1 jar of marashino
cherries
1 jar stuffed green or black olives
Add the milk to the cream cheese to help soften and thin it out. Butter one side of the bread for the sandwiches without cream cheese (egg salad and ham and cucumber). Use cream cheese for the base of the following sandwiches: chopped olives, cucumber, chopped marashino cherries (mix with the cream cheese...it turns a lovely pink!). Cover sandwiches with a damp paper town and cover with saran wrap. Just before serving, cut the sandwiches into triangles, diamond, or fingers with a knife and use a cookie cutter for other shapes like circles and hearts. Sandwiches can be open faced, or multilayered with 2 to 4 slices of bread per sandwich.