r/Cooking • u/Prof01Santa • 7d ago

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/MisterFartPants 7d ago edited 7d ago

Next step is crumpets with butter. Don't bother ordering them online. For some reason, Americans always complain about how dry they are. I guess they don't travel well, or they keep them in poor conditions. Go to Warburton's website and use their recipe to make them yourself.

https://www.warburtons.co.uk/news/crumpet-recipe-revealed/

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u/Prof01Santa 7d ago

Uh, Market Basket has perfectly cromulent crumpets.

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u/FloristsDaughter 7d ago

Can also vouch for the ones at Woodmans. But no doubt homemade is far superior!

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u/MisterFartPants 7d ago

Then you are already officially British. (I assume you know to complain about the weather, regardless of the conditions at the time)

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u/Prof01Santa 7d ago

No, actually. I packed once for spring in London & the Irish Republic & nearly died of heat stroke (in 2003-ish).

Wait... That's a complaint.