My Father’s Tomato Sandwich

Iinherited my love of butter from my father. During my childhood, he only let loose with butter when we made these tomato sandwiches. Even though we lived in an inner-city neighbourhood, we always had a few tomato plants in our garden every summer. You don’t need to have tomatoes growing at your doorstep to make this sandwich taste right, but you must use a perfectly ripe, height-of-the-season tomato.

Here are instructions for a single sandwich, since this is a perfect solitary trea