Party Food... Dead Man's Fingers
You will need:
* Thin sliced white bread
* Butter or margarine
* Cheese spread, marmite or jam
* Almonds
* Strawberry or raspberry jam or tomato ketchup
* A knife
* Plate
What to do:
1. Cut all the crusts off the bread
2. Flatten the bread slightly with a rolling pin to make it more pliable
3. Spread a slice of bread with the filling of your choice.
4. Roll it up like a Swiss roll and use the blade of the knife to make three indentations across the ‘finger’ to make joints
5. Arrange on a plate and add an almond to the tip fixed with a bit of spread as a fingernail. Alternatively use slivers of carrot, tomato or cucumber.
6. Add some strawberry jam or ketchup to the other end of the finger to make blood. Bon appetit!
Why are dead men’s fingers white? After death the heart stops pumping blood around the body so the blood will settle according to the force of gravity. i.e. it will drain down to the lowest points leaving those areas red/purple and the other areas pale and white.
These clues give forensic scientists an idea of the position in which death occurred.
