Croque-monsieur

Name: Croque-monsieur
Yield: Feeds four
Ingredients: 8 slices fresh white bread butter, softened; ½ tsp grated nutmeg; 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; 4 thin slices good ham; 6 tbsp grated Gruyère cheese; 3 tbsp sour cream; freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Feeds
four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Literally translated as a gentleman’s crunch, the croque-monsieur is a true bite of Paris, guaranteed to restore you on a-morning-after-the-night-before, even if you didn’t have a night before that left you in need of restoration.

Ingredients

6 tbsp grated Gruyère cheese
3 tbsp sour cream
freshly ground black pepper</

Sandwich
Breakfast

Method

Mix grated cheese with enough sour cream to make it hold together. Add pepper, grated nutmeg, Worcestershire sauce, and mustard.

Place a sheet of greaseproof paper on the bench, butter 8 slices of bread, then turn 4 of them butter-side down. Cover the 4 unbuttered sides with the grated cheese