Sandwich Book
Hmm, who doesn’t love sammiches?
Seriously, sandwiches are the best.
I particularly like peanut butter sandwiches, though my wife thinks the things I combine with peanut butter are mildly insane. Frankly, I think if she would just try the peanut butter and sweet relish sandwich, she’d see just how sweet and savory combine to make something totally delicious! Though, I completely understand her aversion to my much more experimental peanut butter with bleu cheese slices on pumpernickel. It’s pretty fantastic, but not for the faint of heart or the peanut butter sandwich neophyte. It’s pretty advanced sandwichery.
On the other hand, it’s not like I’m the first guy to make some wild combinations of flavors in a sandwich. It’s been a pretty radical idea from the very start, but I think we’ve lost some of the art of sandwiching with our modern conventions surrounding food. So, this week, I’m sharing a link to a public domain book from 1909 on the art of the sandwich; The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich. It’s brought to you via the Public Domain Review and, while you can read it online, you can download the complete PDF for your own sandwich experiments. There are some great ones in there. I can’t say that the “Texas Sandwich” sounds all that traditionally Texas to me, or like something I’m eager to try, but the “Tip-Top Sandwich” just a few pages later sounds like a delicious culinary adventure. And, “Peanut Sandwich No. 4” sounds quite interesting, if not exactly a part of any diet I’ve ever heard of.
How about you? Have a favorite? Or is there one from the book that sounds like something you’d try?
The weekend is about to start and the comments are open!
This post originally appeared on Use Your Words.
