Smoked Salmon Cornets and Cucumber Salad with Elderflower Cream Cheese Mousse

Preparation info
  • serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Scented Kitchen: Cooking with Flowers

By Frances Bissell

Published 2012

  • About

This is a lovely dish for early summer when you are gathering elderflowers. Quantities can easily be multiplied to make a platter for a buffet lunch or supper.

Ingredients

  • 1 large cucumber
  • 2 teaspoons sea salt
  • 200 g/7

Method

Use a potato peeler to remove most of the skin from the cucumber, then shave it into long ribbons, stopping when you reach the watery core, which should be discarded, unless you can use it as an ingredient for gazpacho. Put the cucumber ribbons in a sieve, sprinkle on the salt and leave for an hour. Rinse and dry thoroughly on paper towels.

Soften the cream cheese in a bowl then mix in