Using the suggested combinations below, have ready:
- ¼-inch-thick slices baguette, 2 × 2 × ½-inch crustless squares Challah, Brioche, or any white bread, or 2 × 2 × ¼-inch squares any dense dark bread (black bread, pumpernickel, etc.)
Cover with any one of the following (use about ½ teaspoon butter or 1 teaspoon spread for each piece of bread):
- Thinly sliced strawberries and sour cream or crème fraîche (challah)
- Brie, fig jam, and butter (dark bread)
- Treva’s Pimiento Cheese, thin slices country ham, and bread-and-butter pickle slices (toasted white bread)
- Sliced tomato, cooked bacon squares or sliced avocado, and Aïoli (brioche)
- Apple slices, Caramelized Onions, and melted sharp Cheddar (dark bread)
- Blue cheese, thinly sliced pears, and butter (baguette)
- Thinly sliced smoked salmon or Gravlax, dill, capers, and Horseradish Sauce II or cream cheese (dark bread or Bagel Chips)
- Smoked trout or sablefish, cucumber, and sour cream mixed with horseradish to taste (pumpernickel)
- Poached, or Pickled Shrimp, parsley or tarragon leaves, and mayonnaise (baguette or soda crackers)
- Flaked crabmeat, thinly sliced avocado, and mayonnaise (baguette)
- Caviar, minced onions, and butter (pumpernickel)
- Sliced chicken or turkey breast, thinly sliced Granny Smith apples, and mayonnaise flavored with curry powder to taste (baguette or challah)
- Sliced roast beef, Sautéed Onions, or Caramelized Onions and Horseradish Sauce II (baguette)
- Sliced roast pork or beef tenderloin, watercress, and Snail Butter (baguette)