Chopped cooked chicken or turkey mixed with chopped apple, chopped celery and mayonnaise; top with crisp lettuce.

Thinnest slices of ham with sweet cucumber pickle, lamb with mint jelly, turkey with cranberry jelly or rare roast beef with horseradish; top with crisp lettuce.

Sardines mashed with lemon juice, then mixed with chopped hard-boiled egg and plenty of freshly milled pepper.

Taramasalata has a good flavour; or use homemade kipper or smoked salmon puree top with lettuce.

Sliced home-made meat loaf with a little mustard and sprigs of watercress; leftover cold hamburger is good, too.

Peeled ripe tomatoes, seeds removed, ‘mashed and mixed with grated Cheddar cheese to absorb tomato juices and a good seasoning of salt and freshly milled pepper.

Cream cheese (Demi-sel is nice) blended with butter until smooth use half and halfseasoned with salt and pepper and mixed with dressed drab or chopped prawns; top with crisp lettuce.

Seasoned cream cheese or cottage cheese with sliced crisp radishes and lettuce. Cottage cheese and cream cheese are also tasty flavoured with horseradish.

Marinated kippers, cut in bite-sized pieces, with onion rings and crisp lettuce.

A thin smear of raspberry jam and sliced banana with lemon juice squeezed over.

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