I love cheddar and home-made marmalade sandwiches - a fairly thin slice of vey mature cheddar is my favourite. However, it's all a bit theoretical now, since I discovered last year that I have put myself on a rigorous low-carb diet to stave off the need for medication. It's proved a great success, but this 'sandwich' can now only be simply a slice of cheddar.
I often make a low carb 'bread', known as 'Oopsie bread', which looks like a drop scone or Scotch pancake, and is made with eggs, cream cheese, psyllium husk and baking powder with a pinch of salt, and I add the cheese to that with some Marmite - only the bread is unusual here ...
One of my favourite sandwich fillings, which is just as good on an Oopsie, is Heinz sandwich spread. My great aunts used to give it to me in little white bread sandwiches cut into triangles when I used to stay with the in the 50s - it was a special treat on Sunday evenings, and I was allowed to have them in bed!, I imagine that they welcomed the chance of an evening off entertaining their young niece, and I have loved sandwich spread ever since. My French mother hated it, and thought it was vulgar, which made me love it even more. But I know very few people who like it, except for my two younger sisters, and in the Waitrose we sometimes go to in Edinburgh, it is hidden away behind a pillar alongside pilchards in tomato sauce, Plumrose tinned ham, and Shippam's fish paste, in what I call the 'old lady aisle'. Even the assistants have to ask where it is. Odd ow things change. Do I have any Are there any fellow Heinz sandwich spread aficionados on Gransnet?