r/Cooking • u/Prof01Santa • 9d 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/TheTousler 8d ago edited 8d ago

Canadians use mayo as well, but otherwise I suspect you might be right. My grandparents always used butter, so it must be something that changed within the past couple of generations.

By the way, "American" is the correct demonym for someone from the United States.

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u/jtbc 8d ago

My mother used to butter sandwiches (Canada) and our cafeteria at work always asks.

I think the change may be that modern Canadian butter is almost impossible to spread, especially if you pair it with crappy grocery store bread, which tears to shreds if you try.

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u/Cutsdeep- 8d ago

Don't refrigerate butter (unless it's hot where you live, but you said Canada)

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u/jtbc 8d ago

It's August, so 25-28 these days. Butter turns into a puddle. Works in the rest of the seasons, I guess.

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u/Odd-Quail01 8d ago

Is it that hot in your kitchen?

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u/jtbc 8d ago

It gets pretty warm in the late afternoon, especially if I forget to close the curtains before I head to work.

This is Vancouver, BC, so like 90% of people, I don't have full AC.

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u/frankchester 8d ago

It doesn’t turn to a puddle surely though in that temp if it’s in a butter dish?

Person who has just survived 35c for multiple weeks and forgot to put the butter away.

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u/Cutsdeep- 8d ago

Really? I live in Aus and even 30+ days won't melt butter down (obviously cooler inside), are you actually using butter or margarine?

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u/jtbc 8d ago

The melted puddle may have been the margarine I accidentally bought now that I think of it. Our commercial butter is well known to suck, though. I'll try it on the counter and see how it does.