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

[Barbara Need]

>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.

Did you close the waffle iron? Or did you use the griddle side as a
griddle and flip the sandwich.

>  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.

I always make the sandwich before I cook it--I use a griddle or a
frying pan and flip the sandwich.

Barbara

>  (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.
>http://www.logomachon.blogspot.com/