Wyvern’s Edwardian sandwiches

Name: Wyvern’s Edwardian sandwiches
Yield: To Serve Four
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 8 slices extremely fresh bread; 100 g (4 oz) each of cooked chicken and cooked tongue, cut in thin matchstick strips; 100 g (4 oz) each of cooked chicken and cooked tongue, cut in thin matchstick strips; generous handful of parsley or parsley and chervil mixed, chives, and tarragon; generous handful of parsley or parsley and chervil mixed, chives, and tarragon; generous handful of parsley or parsley and chervil mixed, chives, and tarragon; generous handful of parsley or parsley and chervil mixed, chives, and tarragon; salt and pepper; 100 g (4 oz) butter, softened to room temperature; salt and pepper

Preparation info

To Serve
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

British Cooking

By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

8 slices extremely fresh bread
100 g (4 oz) each of cooked chicken and cooked tongue

Europe
United Kingdom
Lunch
Supper
Sandwich

Method

Sandwiches

Sandwiches were brought into polite society in the eighteenth century by the gambling Earl of Sandwich - he couldn’t bear to leave the gaming-table for proper cooked meals. ‘The sandwich’, said Wyvern, a gentleman cook and author, ‘is invaluable when time is of the essence.’ Since he was writing in about 1900 when cooks and parlourmaids abounded,