Canapes are savoury pieces, generally bite-sized to offer with drinks. They are small rounds, squares, triangles or fingers of fresh bread, toast or crisply fried bread or savoury biscuits. They are topped simply with a pate or spread, or they can have an irresistable selection of good things to top them. The word 'canapes' is derived from the French, meaning 'sofa', it was considered the small bases acted as a 'seat' for the delicacies which topped them.

a. smoked salmon with scrambled eggs

b. lettuce, camembert cheese, sliced radish

c. asparagus, rare roast beef, cucumber slice

d. lettuce, prawns, mayonnaise, small piece lemon slice

e. lettuce, sardines, thin lemon slices

f. creamed blue cheese, stuffed sliced olives

g. asparagus, smoked salmon, thin slice cucumber

h. liver pate, beetroot strips, sliced gherkin

i. lettuce, egg slice, anchovies

j. cucumber, prawns, mayonnaise, lemon slice

k. black caviar, lemon slice

l. cucumber, rare roast beef, cocktail onion

m. cream cheese, walnut half or 3 seedless grapes

n. ham, small piece pinepple

o. sardine, thin lemon slice, little cayenne pepper

p. liver pate, sliced olives

q. creamed blue cheese, twists sliced radish

r. red/black caviar, 2 prawns circled around

s. beetroot, halved cocktail onion

t. creamed cheese, finely chopped red/green pepper

u. cover half with caviar other half with egg-white

v. creamed cheese, mushroom slices

w. creamed cheese, sweet corn kernels, sliced red pepper

x. asparagus, sliced red pepper

y. creamed seasoned egg yolk, gherkin slices