SPAM Sandwich Recipe by Ruth Paget
Serves 4
Ingredients:
-8 slices rye bread
-1/4 cup softened cream cheese
-20 anchovy strips
-10 sliced green olives with pimiento
-1 (12-ounce) can SPAM with meat cut into 8 thin slices
-1/4 cup mayonnaise
-1 tablespoon mustard
Steps:
1-Spread cream cheese on 4 slices of bread. Place 5 anchovy strips on each slice with cream cheese. Place olive slices on top of the anchovies on the four slices of bread. Place 2 slices of SPAM on top of each of the four slices of bread with anchovies.
2-Mix the mustard with the mayonnaise. Spread the mustard-mayonnaise on the four slices of bread without filling.
3-Cover the bread slices with filling with the four slices spread with mustard-mayonnaise to make four sandwiches. Press down and cut sandwiches in half. Place sandwiches on a serving platter and serve with soda.
Source: Rose Pennington – circa 1950s
By Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France