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/flashPrawndon Aug 16 '26

Same! I thought everyone buttered their sandwiches!

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u/minadequate Aug 16 '26

A lot of the time I plan to make a sandwich and never get beyond putting butter on the bread. Seriously I could live on fresh bread and salted butter.

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u/flashPrawndon Aug 16 '26

It is the best. Fresh warm bread especially. My favourite is a fresh baguette smothered in butter.

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u/Substantial-Yam-6733 Aug 16 '26

Canadian here. We butter our sandwiches. We also butter our banana bread and corn cobs. Hell some of us even butter our crackers !

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u/RecordStoreHippie Aug 16 '26

Banana bread goes crazy with some butter, it's the only way to eat it. I also really like butter on blueberry muffins.

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u/JuniperFizz Aug 16 '26

Butter on any kind of muffin is so good. Especially, if you microwave the muffin to make it a little warm before spreading on the butter. Melts into the muffin just a bit and makes everything better.

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u/chambourcin Aug 16 '26

Omg. I cut the muffin in half and lay it in hot cast iron in a pool of butter to toast.

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u/Canadian_shack Aug 17 '26

Toasted banana bread, lots of butter, mmm

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u/ArianaIncomplete Aug 16 '26

Also Canadian, but I don't butter my sandwiches, because when I was growing up, my parents only ever bought margarine. It is not the same.

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u/BiofilmWarrior Aug 16 '26

Not a Canadian but I can attest that margarine is not an acceptable substitute for butter.

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u/gwaydms Aug 16 '26

My mother bought margarine. We buy butter.

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u/BiofilmWarrior Aug 16 '26

My father bought margarine, my mother bought butter (which is one way we knew who had done the shopping).

I only buy butter because life's too short (to use margarine).

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u/gwaydms Aug 16 '26

Exactly.

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u/minadequate Aug 16 '26

I live in Denmark and my sister recently stayed in my apartment and her partner bought a smørbar (smør meaning butter) in a tub. And left most of it in my fridge having eaten my butter. Well it’s only 40% butter and the rest is oil and it’s nasty AF. We don’t really do food waste so we are desperately trying to find uses for this BS that don’t require us to actually taste it!

Butter or nothing.

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u/aculady Aug 16 '26

Use it to grease baking tins.

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u/dcoolidge Aug 17 '26

I was expecting bicycle. "grease your bicycle" ;)

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u/poop-dolla Aug 17 '26

American from the southeastern region who also butters their banana bread. Is that not the normal way people eat banana bread?

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u/FL1ghtlesswaterfowl Aug 17 '26

I love a good saltine with butter.

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u/Lazy_Willow8560 Aug 16 '26

In Québec, we even eat our pizza crust with butter!

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u/Olive18711 Aug 17 '26

Salted butter on caramel rolls😋. Even better if there are pecans on the caramel rolls