Rolled Anchovy Canapés

Name: Rolled Anchovy Canapés
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6 canapés
Ingredients: 6 slices bread; 6 capers; 6 anchovy fillets, well-drained and rolled; butter (no substitutions); pimiento (optional)

Submitted by Molly53

"An elegantly simple bite. From the Creole chapter of the United States Regional Cookbook, Culinary Arts Institute of Chicago, 1947."

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Ready In:: 15mins
Ingredients:: 5
Yields:: 6 canapés

ingredients

6 slices bread
6 capers
6 anchovy fillets, well-drained and rolled
butter (no substitutions)
pimiento (optional)

directions

Cut bread into attractive shapes and toast.
Spread with butter and place an anchovy on each piece.
On top of each, place a caper flower (made by opening out the petals of each caper with a sharp knife).
Cut a tiny piece of pimiento and place in center of the caper flower.