B-L-T Tidbits

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B-L-T Tidbits

Recipe By : The Big Beautiful Book of Hors d'Oeuvres by Julia Weinberg
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Appetizers Hors d'Oeuvres

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup sweet pickle relish -- well drained
8 slices white bread
16 strips bacon
4 lettuce leaves
4 slices cheese (Monterey jack, cheddar or Swiss)
12 thin slices tomato
30 cocktail onions
cellophane-tipped toothpicks

Combine the mayonnaise and relish.

Toast the white bread and spread slices generously with the
mayonnaise-relish mixture.

Fry the bacon until crisp. Drain well on paper towels. Place the bacon
slices side by side on 4 pieces of toasted bread, covering the entire
surface. Top the layer of bacon with a lettuce leaf and slice of cheese.
(Don't worry about the overlap, as it will be trimmed off.) Top with
another toast slice.

Trim the crusts off the sandwich and mentally divide it into 9 1-inch
squares. Skewer a cocktail onion on a cellophane-tipped toothpick and
insert in the center of each imaginary square.

Make 3 equidistant vertical slices, keeping the sandwich together. Make 3
equidistant horizontal slices to produce 9 cubes, and serve.

Special Hints: To prevent the tidbits from becoming soggy, purchase firm
tomatoes and drain the pickle relish well.

Do-Ahead Note: Prepare the sandwich several hours ahead of time but do not
garnish or cut. Just before serving, heat the foil-wrapped sandwiches until
warm, then garnish and cut into cubes.

From The Big Beautiful Book of Hors d'Oeuvres by Julia Weinberg. (New
Century Publishers, Inc. 1980. ISBN 0-8329-0196-2)
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