Apple and Chocolate Sandwiches
Apple slices with butter and chocolate on white bread
City/Region: Ireland
Time Period: 1930s
This recipe is super easy and surprisingly delicious. All of the ingredients can be adjusted to suit your tastes, but I used a good quality salted Irish butter and milk chocolate and highly recommend it. Not only do I find milk chocolate delicious, but when this recipe was written, milk chocolate was heavily marketed to women and children, and this recipe comes from a convent school.
I’m hesitant to even put amounts for ingredients on this one because it really depends on your taste and how many sandwiches you want to make, so feel free to use this recipe as a starting point.
“APPLE AND CHOCOLATE SANDWICHES
Pound some butter with enough grated chocolate to flavour and colour it, and add a few drops of vanilla. Spread slices of white bread with this, and sandwich together with thin slices of an apple. Cut in neat pieces.”
Ingredients:
- 4 tablespoons (60 g) softened butter, salted Irish butter is best
- 2 oz (55 g) chocolate, I used milk chocolate
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 sweet apple like a gala
- White sandwich bread
Instructions:
- Put the butter in a bowl and give it a stir. Grate some of the chocolate into the bowl. Stop and taste the mixture every once in a while to see if it’s chocolatey enough for you. You probably won’t use all of the chocolate, which means you may need to eat the rest (oh no!). When you have enough chocolate for your taste, stir in the vanilla.
- Core the apple and cut it into thin slices.
- Spread some of the chocolate mixture onto two slices of bread. Layer some apple slices on top of one slice, then sandwich the two slices together. Repeat to make however many sandwiches you like, the number of which will depend on how generously you use the butter and apples.
- Slice the sandwiches on the diagonal or however you would like, and serve it forth.