more culinary musings

Victor Steinbok aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
Wed Jan 26 21:10:57 UTC 2011


I came across this in a 1880 cookbook. Normally, when someone refers to
bread-and-butter, I assume it to be a slice of bread spread with a thin
layer of butter. But what does it mean when the cookbook says, "Slice
bread-and-butter"?

     VS-)

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