Tomato-cucumber sandwich on sweet bread
Servings: 1
Preparation Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 slices toasted sandwich bread
- butter
- 1 clove garlic, sliced thinly
- 1 tomato, sliced
- ½ cucumber, sliced
- salt
Steps
- Spread the butter and garlic slices over the two slices of toast.
- Lay down the tomato slices on one slice of toast, and lightly salt them.
- Lay down the cucumber slices on the tomatoes, and lightly salt them.
- Place the second slice, butter-side down, to complete the sandwich.
Thursday is national sandwich day! So eat a sandwich! This recipe blends Lebanon and Syria in a sandwich.
This sandwich works best with a bread made from sweet dough, a yeasted white flour loaf made with eggs and extra sugar. I like to use a Syrian-style anise bread with mahleb, but any sandwich bread will do, especially breads like the Portuguese sweet bread from the The Bread Machine Cookbook (revised)•.
Don’t skimp on the butter, do skimp on the salt, since you’re putting it on twice, and raise a toast (pun intended) to National Sandwich Day!
You’ll most likely have slices left over from the tomato and cucumber, so put them on the side with salt or salt and pepper, as you prefer. Drink with iced tea or some other not-particularly-sweet beverage, and relax.
I’ve been fascinated by cucumber sandwiches ever since reading The Importance of Being Earnest, and while this is nothing like that, I did have the urge to make a cucumber-focused sandwich after having some left over from a Lebanese garlic-tomato-cucumber salad. This is pretty much that salad (minus the lemon and olive oil, plus butter) on toast.
- The Art of Syrian Cookery
- Lots of eggplant, sweets, and mahleb. This is a very good cookbook.
- The Bread Machine Cookbook (revised)•: Donna Rathmell German (paperback)
- This is the revised version of Donna Rathmell German’s first bread machine cookbook. I haven’t tried it (I have the older version), but it claims to be updated for allergy-sensitive baking and newer models—though newer probably means circa 2005.
- Bread machine ka’ick
- Varying a Syrian recipe from Helen Corey, this anise and mahleb-flavored bread is perhaps the best tomato sandwich bread I have ever tasted.
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The full text of The Importance of Being Earnest in three acts.
- Lebanese Cuisine
- Garlic, eggplant, and chickpeas. You can’t hardly go wrong with Lebanese food, and this book is great.
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