There's nothing groundbreaking in regards to a grilled cheese sandwich. Sometimes, however, a great grilled cheese is the best meal, snack or pick-me up. Certainly one of my personal favorite comfort foods, the grilled cheese is flexible easily transitioning from elegant to everyday using the addition or subtraction of only a couple of ingredients. Certainly one of my personal favorite everyday grilled cheese sandwiches was produced by my mother. Based from a famous St. Louis sandwich, these little bites of paradise always score big at us pool party within the summer time.
The Gerber Sandwich from Ruma’s Deli in St. Louis, MO wasn't just one of my Mother’s favorite meals becoming an adult, however it was preferred among the whole city. The Gerber Sandwich is really a local legend. Pork, garlic clove butter, paprika and Provel cheese (a St. Louis staple sneered at by many people, including myself) offered open faced on Italian bread and toasted. Becoming an adult I usually wondered why mother made &"Gerber&" sandwiches, it seemed like baby food. A fast search produced an apparent explanation, the sandwich is known as after customer Dick Gerber, though what he did to deserve this recognition I don't know.
Becoming an adult my mother made her very own form of the Gerber. The recipe’s first incarnation incorporated pork, but as time passed and every person in my loved ones experienced a minimum of a couple of many years of vegetarianism, the sandwich lost its pork and grew to become what it's today. An excellent grilled cheese. This is actually the recipe:
Mrs. Perry’s Panda Sandwiches
(we began giving them a call this once they lost their pork, and since Amanda the Panda just can’t get an adequate amount of them. Also, apparently Patrick Stoll of Ruma’s Deli is protective of his famous sandwich’s famous name )
2 melted sticks of butter
3 teaspoons garlic clove powder
1.5 teaspoons brown sugar
1/2 cup pineapple juice
60 1 " by 1 " slices of Munster cheese (cut from about 12 ounces of cheese)
60 1 " by 1 " slices of Havarti cheese (cut from about 12 ounces of cheese)
30 wheat grains dollar rolls (slider sized)
Recipe makes 30 small sandwiches
Preheat oven to 350 levels.
Mix the garlic clove powder and melted butter inside a bowl, put aside. In another bowl mix the brown sugar in to the pineapple juice. Separate the bottom and top buns from the rolls. You now works within an set up line making each one of the sandwiches exactly the same way. Spoon a drizzle of garlic clove butter within the bottom and top buns of the roll. Give a drizzle of pineapple juice to within only the bottom bun. Lay two 1 " slices of munster cheese and 2 1 " slices of havarti cheese at the base bun. Close the sandwich using the top bun and hang onto a baking sheet. Repeat until all 30 sandwiches happen to be put together. Bake for ten minutes or until cheese has melted.
These sandwiches could be put together ahead of time and baked before serving. The spice in the garlic clove and also the sweetness in the pineapple juice really are a perfect combo. My mouth is watering considering it, I simply love grilled cheese!
