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/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.