Andrew Lekashman

Bovril Sandwich

A thin dark film of Bovril, the salty Victorian beef extract, dragged across buttered bread. The same flavour Britain cradles in a hot mug on cold football terraces.

Bombay Sandwich

Boiled potato, cucumber, tomato, onion and beetroot pressed in green-chutney-painted pao over a charcoal chimta; a Mumbai street sandwich of the 1960s textile-mill years.

BLT

Bacon, lettuce, tomato with mayonnaise; American import.

BLT (British)

Bacon, lettuce, and tomato with mayonnaise on toasted bread; American classic adopted in UK.

Bloater Paste

Bloater paste is the strong, gamey corner of the British paste shelf, and the reason is the cure: the herring is smoked whole, guts left in, so the fish ferments faintly before it is ever potted.

Bloater Paste Sandwich

Bloater (whole smoked herring) paste on bread; regional specialty.

BLAT

BLT with avocado added; modern variation.

Black Pudding Sandwich

Fried discs of blood sausage on a buttered bap, built to frame one flavour: the deep iron note blood gives and no other breakfast meat carries. Bury, Lancashire, is its capital.

Black Pudding and Egg

The black pudding and egg roll pairs a crumbly fried slice of blood sausage with a fried egg whose runny yolk is the mortar: it floods the grit and glues the slice to a soft buttered roll.

Black Pudding and Apple

Black pudding with fried apple slices; sweet-savory pairing.

Beetroot Sandwich

Sliced pickled beetroot on bread; can stain bread pink.

Beetroot and Cheese

Beetroot with cheese; sweet-savory combination.

Beef paste is roast beef with its whole structure cooked, pounded, and seasoned out of it: a dark fat-bound spread scraped thin on buttered white, sealed in the jar that kept a British larder stocked.

Beef Dripping Sandwich

Most sandwiches treat fat as what carries the filling; this one makes the fat the filling. Set beef dripping scraped from the basin, the dark jelly underneath, a hard hit of salt.

Bedfordshire Clanger

Suet pastry with savory filling one end, sweet the other; complete meal in one.

Bath Bun Sandwich

A Bath bun arrives sweet: sugar-crusted, studded with candied peel, sometimes a sugar lump in the base. Split and filled, the named West Country bun makes a sandwich whose bread is the loudest part.