Snacks for Cocktail Parties

They do great for a quick lunch as well

Snacks

These are either hot or cold and should be presented in a form which can easily be handled by guests.

Points to remember

Use day-old bread, Butter must be soft and creamy. Decide on total number of items, hot or cold. Collect and prepare all ingredients and mixtures before commencing.

Cold Snacks

Diamonnnd-shaped bread spread with butter, mustard and cover with diamond-shaped ham and decorated with pickled onion or a piece of beetroot.

Round of bread spread with mayonnaise, round of tomato edged with cheese.

Round of bread and butter, mayonnaise, sliced hard boiled egg. Garnished with alices of stuffed olives.

Finger of bread and butter, whole sardine.

Finger of bread and butter, mayonnaise and asparagus, strip of green pepper.

Round of bread and butter or biscuit, cream cheese decorated with sieved egg yolk and gherkin.

Biscuit spread with liver sausage, decorated with chopped pickled walnut.

Biscuit spread with cream cheese, cross of tomato, 4 capers.

Round of bread and butter, mayonnaise, chopped pickled cucumbers, 3 triangles tomato.

Bread and butter or biscuit, cream cheese, sliced ham decorated with paprika.

Biscuit spread with peanut butter, sprinkled with crisp bacon rind.

Round of pineapple spread with cream cheese, mixed celery and chopped chives (spring onions).

Biscuit spread with Marmite. Fancy shape with cheddar cheese and cocktail onion.

Round or square of bread and butter, half cream cheese, half avocado.

Butter biscuit, Marmite, strips of cheese.

Finger of celery, stuffed with roquefort cheese, moistened with Worcestershire Chaucer.

Seasoned roquefort cheese on a biscuit with cocktail onion.

Rectangular bread and butter, 1/2 liver sausage, 1/2 cheese. tomato sauce for decoration.

Slice of bread roll, buttered, boat-shaped piece of pickled cucumber triangle of polo ny for a sail.

Round of bread and butter, peanut butter, and topped with pickle.

Biscuit with peanut butter, chopped egg and mayonnaise.

Dates stuffed with processed cheese.

Prunes Stuffed with cream cheese.

Assortment of chives, curled cheese, onion, vienna sausage, pineapple, cheese, etc, on cocktail sticks and arranged on a grapefruit etc.

Hot Snacks

Buttered ice cream wafers sprinkled with grated cheese and grilled.

Small pastry cases filled with savory mixtures, deviled kidney, cheese, chicken, curried mince, mushrooms etc.

Small fish balls, meat balls etc.

Small choux pastry cases with savory fillings.

Prunes stuffed with chutney, rolled in bacon and grilled.

Potato crisps.

Small sausage rolls, cheese and bacon, cheese tartlets, cheese dotards, dunking trays with a hot sauce, shrimps fried in batter, chipolata cocktail sausages.