Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich (now less OT)

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

Barbara Need wrote: 
<<his mother used a waffle iron with plates installed over or instead of the waffle plates>>
Exactly.
We called it a grilled cheese sandwich in the Wash., D.C. suburbs in the 1950s, and my mother taught us to make them in a waffle iron with the plates reversed to the pancake griddle side.  We buttered the outsides and filled it with cheddar cheese, mustard, and maybe sliced ham.  This bound me conceptually, so that I still make the sandwich before putting it in the frying pan, rather than using the elegant method of building the sandwich as it cooks.  (Visages, sacred or profane, were rare, though my mother once thought she saw the likeness of  Franklin Roosevelt.  Her response was to cut the sandwich into quarters rather than the usual halves.)

I found in the late '60s that Dutch pub fare always included--often exclusively--a grilled cheese or ham & cheese sandwich made in a press.   One asked for "een ham en kaas tostie", although I'm not sure about the "tostie".

Seán Fitzpatrick
Strawberry tarts, cinnamon trollops, and hot buttered trulls.  Uuumm,mmm good.
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