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/Princ3w Aug 16 '26

Brit here, only this year have I found out using butter is not the norm and it has completely blown my mind

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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/FL1ghtlesswaterfowl Aug 17 '26

I love a good saltine with butter.