UK - One Sandwich - The Joy of Sandwiches (Page 18)

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.

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.

Bovril on Toast: an illustration of butter on white bread.

Bombay Sandwich

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

BLT

The packaged BLT of British chiller shelves: smoked bacon, lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise in soft bread triangles, ranked first among fillings by the British Sandwich Association in 2013.

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

Ripe avocado added to bacon, lettuce and tomato on toast: warm toast, cold salad, and a soft green layer that lines the crumb against the tomato's juice.

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: an illustration of the sandwich.

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.