Cuke-with-a-Kick Finger Sandwiches

Ingredients

• 1 cucumber
• 4 tablespoons butter, at room temperature
• 2 scallions, minced
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
• 1 tablespoon red horseradish (or white if you can't find red)
• Large pinch salt
• Several grinds of black pepper
• 10 slices very thin white bread (recommended: Pepperidge Farm)

Directions

Peel the cucumber and slice it very, very thin. Lay the cucumber slices out on a sheet of paper towel and cover them with a second sheet. Let stand until the paper towels soak up the cucumber slices' liquid, about 15 minutes.

Mash the butter, scallions, dill, horseradish, salt and pepper together in a small bowl until well blended. Spread 5 of the bread slices with half of the dill butter, then top the butter with a layer of cucumber slices—it's fine if they overlap a little bit. Spread the remaining butter over the remaining bread and top the sandwiches. Cut each sandwich into 4 pieces.