Bread around breadSourced
The sandwich filling was a piece of toast
A toast sandwich places a thin slice of toasted bread between two other slices of bread. A recipe appeared in Isabella Beeton’s 1861 household book. What looks like a joke about missing fillings has an actual place in cookbook history.
Bread outside, toasted bread inside.
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