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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cucumber sandwiches.  
I typed up my recipe for this for a family cookbook a few years ago.  Here is a cut and paste of it:

Larla’s cucumber sandwiches

One 8 ounce package cream cheese
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
Lemon pepper
One fresh loaf of white bread  (Try to buy the square-ish shaped type of bread)
One cucumber will probably be enough, but buy two just in case
2 cups apple cider vinegar
Empty tomato paste can

The day before, peel and then slice the cucumber into circles.  Make the slices ¼ inch thick or less.   Marinate it overnight in a bowl full of half vinegar, half water.

The next day, first mix up your cream cheese spread.  Put the cream cheese in a microwave safe bowl, then melt it on low power in the microwave, for about a minute at a time, until it is easy to mix it with a mixer.  Then add the mayonnaise and the garlic in with the cream cheese, and use the mixer to get it all mixed up.  Then put the bowl in the frig because you are going to have to fiddle with the bread for about a half hour.

Use the tomato paste can to slice circles out of each piece of bread.  You can get two circles out of each piece.  Discard all the bread that didn’t get cut up into circles.

Then take the marinated cucumber slices out of the fridge and drain them.  Then lay them out one by one on a paper towel to dry them out a bit.

Take your cream cheese mixture out of the frig, and spread it on each piece of bread.  Then top each piece of bread with a cucumber slice.  Then sprinkle lemon pepper on top of the cucumber.  Keep going until you are all done.  
Serve.

Notes from Larla – These are open-faced sandwiches.  You don’t put another piece of bread on top of the cucumber.  
I have made this a million gazillion times.  This is my “signature” thing I bring to 
pot lucks.  It’s cheap, it’s easy, it’s portable, it’s different.  
Sometimes when I make this, I run out of bread first, sometimes cream cheese first, and sometimes cucumber first. Usually it’s the cucumber first, unless I decided to slice up and marinate  1 ½  cucumbers, which is too much. 
It generally comes to about 30- 34 little sandwiches.  I have a plastic serving tray, about the size of a cafeteria tray,  that is my “go to” platter for these sandwiches.  
In order to transport them in a less messy way, I put the sandwiches one on top of the other, then use that sticky kind of saran wrap to cover it all for transport.  Then once I get to the place and remove the plastic wrap,  make the sandwiches not be doubled up anymore.  I bring the lemon pepper spice with me and sprinkle it on at the place once I have made the sandwiches be open faced.

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Pepperidge Farm is the thin, squarish loaf of bread...[/quote]

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