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The toast sandwich is a piece of toast between two slices of untoasted bread

Ellsworth Toohey
Jun 17, 2026
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A toast sandwich is exactly what it sounds like: a thin slice of toasted bread, placed between two slices of untoasted bread. Season with salt and pepper. The recipe appears in Isabella Beeton’s 1861 Book of Household Management, in the section for invalid cookery. Beeton suggests the sandwich “may be varied by addin…

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