I love how elegant and fun it is to have an afternoon tea. I’ve been to two in my life. The first was in Ireland when I was traveling Europe with my best friend during college break. I fell completely in love with the ritual. We sat for 2 hours just enjoying tea, light sandwiches and pastries. It was the perfect little meal to tide us over between lunch and dinner since all of the walking we did worked up our appetite. The second was right in Disney World at Grand Floridian. It was so relaxing after several days of running around the parks. So with Mother’s Day this weekend, I was inspired to create my own little cucumber tea sandwiches for a Mother’s Day tea! They were so simple and yummy.
Oh my goodness, I was transported immediately to a yummy, traditional afternoon tea right in my own home. It was so relaxing to sit for 15 minutes and enjoy the cucumber tea sandwiches with a cup of tea and quick batch of my lemon blueberry scones. I hope you enjoy them too! xoxo
These cucumber tea sandwiches are so little and elegant for a light lunch or afternoon tea! The homemade lemon dill mayo just makes them.
- 1 whole lemon zested and juiced
- 1 whole egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill roughly chopped
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch freshly cracked black pepper
- 1 cup canola oil
- 6 slices sandwich bread
- 1 whole cucumber thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon fresh dill
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch freshly cracked black pepper
- First, make the mayo. Wrap a medium mixing bowl in a cold wet towel, which helps emulsify the mayo. Then combine the lemon zest, lemon juice, egg yolk, Dijon, dill, salt and pepper in the bowl. Whisk it all together well. Keep whisking while you slowly pour in the canola oil until you have a gorgeous pale yellow mayo. Set it aside. Take the bread and remove the crusts to have little trimmed rectangles. Take the cucumber slices and blot them well with paper towels so they aren't soggy. Then toss them with the dill, salt and pepper in another bowl.
- Slather a generous layer of mayo onto each slice of bread. Then pile a small, even amount of dressed cucumbers onto 3 of the slices. There might be leftover mayo and cucumber slices to have later! Close the sandwiches by placing the other 3 slices on top with the mayo side down. Cut each of the 3 sandwiches in half horizontally to have 6 cute little tea sandwiches. Serve them immediately with some yummy scones and a great pot of tea!
The lemon dill mayo sounds like the perfect accompaniment to this cucumber sandwich! I love dill and often love adding it onto certain kinds of fish! xo
– Berrz | http://beautybyberrz.blogspot.com
Yes, I love adding dill to all sorts of fresh recipes! Thanks so much for the kind words 🙂
Tea sandwiches are my favorite! These ones are great for spring and summer. They’re so fresh and light!
Thank you so much!!