Wow, that looks too fancy for me :-) but they are amazingly inexpensive! Do the instructions say how much bread dough to use in each one?
I have prime… :-)
Those are not the ones I use - mine are from Pampered Chef, and I got them at the thrift store; but they are probably almost the same thing. Here’s another link (I wasn’t sure PC still made them, so initially I just looked up ‘tea bread molds’):
I use the frozen Bridgford bread dough, which comes with three frozen loaves of dough, which will fill six of these tubes - probably more than you need, so you need to figure how many loaves of regular bread would feed your party, and calculate how that transfers to these little breads - maybe three little sandwiches per person would equal a regular sandwich?
When the dough has defrosted enough to be cut, I put 1/2 of each loaf into each tube, and let it continue to defrost and rise a little, upright, with the end caps on. You don’t want it to rise too much; let it go until it’s soft and when poking it a little will cause it to depress. Then bake them upright in your oven.
The mold will probably come with instructions, and if your party isn’t too soon, you could do a trial run.
Resist cutting the slices too thickly; you want them quite thin, and slightly freezing the bread after it’s been baked and cooled will help with precise slicing.
If you make the bread ahead of time, wrap it well in cling wrap and store it in an airtight container, or freeze for longer-term storage.
(Again, you can do something just as pretty by slicing a good loaf of unsliced bread a little more thickly than usual, and then cutting with a cookie cutter into little tea-bread shapes. You won’t have crusts, then; but it will be a dainty and pretty little tea sandwich.)
Another idea, which might be easier, is the old Pyrex ‘Bake-A-Round’ bread tube. You can find these on Etsy, Ebay, etc:
http://www.thekitchn.com/check-this-out-vintage-pyrex-b-119529
I would still use the Bridgford frozen dough in this.
You just can’t find little loaves of square white bread or ‘pullman’ loaves in the stores; they always have the little square Pumpernickel party loaves, but that wouldn’t go well with the chicken salad.