Bread and Dripping
Bread and dripping is the roast with no roast left: beef fat set firm, spread where butter would go, the dark jelly underneath the prize. A cook's pot of it sparked the 1865 Leeds Dripping Riots.
UK
Brawn Sandwich
Cold sliced brawn, the meat of a pig's head set in its own gelatine, between buttered white bread with a stripe of mustard. The filling arrives pre-built; the loaf just carries it.
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.
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
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.
Bara Brith Toast
Bara brith (speckled bread with dried fruit) toasted with butter; sweet breakfast.