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Some Entertaining Ideas

Appears in
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook
The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

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The secret to successful party food is to make items small enough to make one mouthful, as this eliminates the need for individual plates. Things like:
  • Miniature pizzas with a variety of toppings, including pieces of Home-dried Tomato and mozzarella, pesto, spring onion and shaved Cheddar, sweet grilled pepper and anchovy. You can use thinly rolled shop-bought puff pastry for the base if you are too busy to make a proper pizza dough. Use a pastry cutter to cut out bite-sized rounds.
  • Puff pastry can also be glazed with egg yolk and simply topped with a spoonful of creamy scrambled egg. Little pies made in a tart pan and filled with Bolognese Sauce are always popular.
  • Meat eaters also love real ham sandwiches made from slices cut fresh off the bone. Use fresh made English mustard and unsalted butter on good, white bread, but with the crusts cut off and the sandwiches sliced into bite-sized squares.
  • CruditĂ©s like sticks of carrots, celery, cauliflower florets, strips of sweet peppers and other crisp vegetables with a hot dipping sauce made from 20 anchovy fillets, 115 g / 4 oz butter, 300 ml / ½ pint single cream and 8 large garlic cloves, smashed and chopped, all heated together in a pan until they combine into a smooth purĂ©e.
  • Tiny Scotch Eggs can be made with quails’ eggs and lean, spicy sausagemeat. The sausagemeat can be made more interesting by mashing into it finely diced chilli and garlic and chopped coriander or flat-leaved parsley.
  • Finally, finger sandwiches made from smoked salmon never go amiss, nor do cubes of best mature farmhouse Cheddar.

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