Pimento Sandwiches
Ingredients
Directions
Make the filling
Put the sweet pimentos through a grinder and rub them into a paste with the cream cheese.
Assemble
Trim the crust off a small loaf, slice thin and spread with this paste.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.
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What each ingredient does
- Sweet pimentos
- Provide the sweet, mild flavour and colour that define the filling.
- Cream cheese
- Gives the filling a smooth, spreadable body and a creamy, rich texture.
The step that matters
Rubbing the pimentos into the cream cheese. Pushing the pimentos and cream cheese together until fully blended gives an even paste; lumps of cheese or unbroken pimento pieces make the spread uneven and harder to spread thinly on bread.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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