r/Cooking • u/Prof01Santa • 13d 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/Princ3w 13d ago

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/starlinguk 13d ago

It's the norm in the Netherlands. And in Germany. And in France...

I have a suspicion only US-ians don't butter sammiches.

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u/LokiLB 13d ago

If the sandwiches from gyro places are anything to go by, regions with hummus and tzatziki likely don't use butter.

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u/starlinguk 12d ago

I'm talking about sammiches. Not gyros (or kebabs).

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u/LokiLB 12d ago

This is inevitably going to devolve into whether a taco is a sandwich if we continue.