Title: Smoked Salmon Bites with Lemon Balm on Pumper
Categories: Appetizers, Cheese/eggs, Fish, Harned 1994, Herb/spice
Yield: 6 Appetizers

6 sl Pumpernickel bread
-- cut in squares
-- 4 squares per slice
Unsalted butter
1 tb Chopped fresh lemon balm
1 ts Lemon juice
Salt and pepper; to taste
4 oz Cream cheese; at room temp.
1/4 lb Canadian smoked salmon
-- thinly sliced
1 sm Red onion
-- thinly sliced in rings

----------------------------------GARNISH----------------------------------
Lemon slices
Lemon balm sprigs

Spread pumpernickel squares with butter. Blend lemon balm with lemon
juice, salt, pepper and cream cheese. Spread evenly onto buttered squares.
Place a small piece of salmon on top of each square, then a red onion ring.

Arrange on serving platter; garnish.

Variation: Use chopped chives or dill instead of lemon balm.

From _Nancy Enright's Canadian Herb Cookbook_ by Nancy Enright. Toronto:
James Lorimer & Company, 1985. Pg. 61. ISBN 0-88862-788-2. Electronic
format by Cathy Harned.

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