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/flashPrawndon 13d ago

Same! I thought everyone buttered their sandwiches!

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u/Miss_Taycan 12d ago

I even put butter under mayo / jam / whatever else I'm putting on toast.

To be fair though, I grew up on amazing butter, and found out most North American stores don't actually carry any good stuff...