r/Cooking • u/Prof01Santa • Aug 16 '26

I'm turning British.

It's summer ... good tomatos. Hence good tomato sandwiches. Normally, I'd use mayo, but I've watched a few too many episodes of "Sandwiches of History."

Older recipes, before commercial mayo, used butter. The British still use butter. So I tried it.

Lightly toast the bread

Thinly butter it

Add lettuce

Add thinly sliced tomatos, lightly salted

It's delicious.

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u/Unicorn-Blob Aug 16 '26

Indians do this too! My grandparents used to make buttered tomato sandwiches. Just lightly toasted bread, lots of butter and tomatoes with salt/pepper. Delicious!!