Lettuce Sandwich
Just lettuce on bread; simple, often with salad cream.
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Just lettuce on bread; simple, often with salad cream.
Crumbly Lancashire on plain buttered white: a cheese that flakes rather than slices, built as a loose lactic scatter, the method standardised by Joseph Gornall in the 1890s.
Smoked kipper (split herring) on bread; traditional breakfast fish.
Kedgeree, the Anglo-Indian breakfast of curried rice, smoked haddock and egg, reassembled flat inside bread: a finished Victorian sideboard dish, descended from khichri, persuaded to fold.
The East End jellied eel sandwich: chopped eel set cold in its own savoury jelly on plain buttered bread, a Cockney pie-and-mash tradition off the Thames.
Isle of Mull Cheddar (strong, from whisky-fed cows) on bread.
Hummus with vegetables on bread; vegetarian option.
Sweet honey-glazed ham on bread.
The British hog roast roll: pulled shoulder, hard crackling, apple sauce and stuffing in a floured bap, carved to order off a whole spit-roasted pig at country shows and Christmas markets while.
A slice of Lincolnshire baked pork loaf on plain white bread, sage and pepper already in the meat. The butcher does the seasoning; the sandwich keeps quiet.
One slice of cooked ham on buttered bread, the plainest cooked-meat sandwich Britain makes, with a York-versus-Wiltshire cure behind the slice and a real maths theorem named after it.
Buttered white bread, sliced ham, and crisp salad, built in the narrow band where the bread stays dry and the leaves stay cold. Share the name with America's ground.
The mild pink scrape of the British paste shelf, ham milled smooth with butter into a film thin enough for a lunchbox. Its whole reason is keeping.
The cold-ham sandwich most punished by being made ahead is the one Britain most often eats made ahead, sealed in a chiller wedge: the soggy-tomato problem solved by salt.
The most settled ham sandwich Britain makes turns on one jar of brown pickle: Branston, a sweet-sour chutney that took the name of a Staffordshire village it left within a few years of starting there.
A bright yellow mustard pickle laid as a band along cooked ham: the colonial-era English Raj relish, in jars since the 1860s, doing all the talking on a soft buttered loaf.
Ham with pease pudding (thick split pea purée); Newcastle and Northeast specialty.
Ham with pease pudding (split pea purée) in stottie; iconic Newcastle combination.
Thinly sliced ham with English mustard on white bread; sharp mustard heat against sweet ham.
Grilled halloumi (squeaky, brined cheese) on bread; modern addition to UK sandwiches.