Christmas party hors d’oeuvre – Rants Raves and Recipes

Smoked Scottish Salmon Christmas Tree Hors D’Oeuvre

Going through old photos we found a number of old recipe shots from parties and dinners long ago. This one was a huge hit at one of the Christmas parties we held. Took a bit of work but they came out great.

Ingredients for Smoked Salmon Hors D’Oeuvre

Smoked Scottish Salmon thinly sliced
Onion (red or white) very thinly sliced
cream cheese softened (Whipped preferred)
capers
diced pimento
thinly sliced pumpernickel bread

Directions for Hors D’Oeuvre

For the trees

Take the pumpernickel bread and using a Christmas Tree cookie cutter cut out as many trees as you are going to be making. Spread a very thin layer of cream cheese onto one side of the trees. Using an aspic cutter star shaped cut stars or what ever other design you want out of the leftover pieces of pumpernickel.

Take the Salmon and lay it out flat and using the same cookie cutter , cut tree shapes of salmon and place onto the cream cheese side of the pumpernickel. Take left over pieces of salmon and group into rectangles slightly larger than the tree and cut out and using spatula place onto pumpernickel. *

Now taking the thinly sliced onion crisscross it down the tree to resemble garland. Place a few capers and pimento to resemble decorations, and place the star shaped bread at the top of the tree. Arrange on a platter to serve.

For Wreaths

Using wreath cookie cutter, cut out the pumpernickel bread, layer with salmon or spread cream cheese or a pâté and decorate. Use small aspic apostrophe cutter to make the bows. For a more decorative touch pipe the pâté onto wreaths and then decorate.

*Note that salmon doesn’t have to be all in one piece, You could also make a pâté to spread on the pumpernickel out of the salmon and cream cheese, to save time.. It doesn’t even have to be salmon you can alternate with a dill cream cheese spread or really anything else you can think of or any shape you want ie: round or bell shaped cookie cutters etc. and decorate as Christmas balls. You can also add fresh chopped dill to the cream cheese to spread under the salmon or any other spice you think might compliment it.

Here are a few items to help make this recipe:
Wilton Holiday 18 pc Metal Cookie Cutter Set #2308-1132
Sterlingcraft Oblong Serving Tray

Although this was way before my time it certainly sounds like a very interesting dish, Anything “Scottish” has got to be good!

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