Monte Cristo Sandwiches



Ingredients:
batter:
1 1/4 loving cup milk
1 loving cup flour
1 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 egg

sandwich:
12 slices sparse white sandwich bread, crusts removed
1/3 lb sliced smoked ham
1/3 lb sliced turkey
8 slices Swiss cheese
Dijon mustard

butter for the pan
berry jam
confectioners' sugar

Directions:
Whisk together the batter ingredients. Set aside. Place 4 slices of breadstuff on a build clean surface. Spread a sparse layer of mustard on each. Layer alongside a piece of Swiss together with overstep alongside a few slices of turkey. Top alongside a piece of bread.



Spread alongside a sparse layer of mustard, overstep alongside a few slices of ham together with hence overstep alongside a piece of cheese together with the remaining slices of bread. Melt butter inward a skillet. Pour the batter inward a shallow bowl together with dip each side of the sandwich inward batter. Cook ane at a time, roofing briefly if needed to create the sandwich through. Cook ane side hence carefully flip the sandwich using tongs together with create until golden. Use the tongs to concord the sandwich vertically together with create each side.




Sprinkle alongside confectioners' saccharide together with serve alongside jam to dip.


My thoughts:
No ane seems certain precisely how or why Monte Cristo sandwiches got their call but it seems similar they were the consequence of to a greater extent than or less lodge sandwich development crossed alongside the Croque Monsieur . They were rootage mentioned the Brown Derby Cookbook published inward 1949 but they reached their national peak of popularity inward the 1950s. Some eating theatre chains deep pocket-size fry their Monte Cristo sandwiches but early on recipes telephone outcry upward for pan frying inward butter which is non exclusively easier to produce at home, is genuinely tasty. Oddly, I wasn't able to detect a authentic recipe that genuinely included a recipe for the batter (even the 1949 Brown Derby version only calls for dipping the sandwich inward a "light egg batter") hence I came upward alongside a batter that was a lilliputian thinner than pancake batter but to a greater extent than substantial than dipping it inward egg together with milk every bit I would for French toast. Early recipes likewise telephone outcry upward for buttering the breadstuff on each side. I opted to purpose mustard instead which would concord the sandwich together every bit good every bit butter spell cutting downward a chip on the over the overstep richness. It likewise added a sudden flavour that was welcome.


 Place 4 slices of breadstuff on a build clean surface Monte Cristo Sandwiches

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