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Waffle-Iron Grilled Cheese

Servings:1

Who doesn’t have touchstone foods from childhood? My aunt Ruth made the best grilled cheese sandwiches, bar none. Decades before most people in this country had ever heard of panini, she used a waffle iron to make them with buttered caraway rye bread and Muenster cheese. This mouthwatering panino was embossed with square dimples, like crisp inverse croutons, encasing cheese that oozed and crisped at the edges. I thought my aunt invented it, but evidently it was a somewhat widespread Midwestern custom. There is no reason not to make it exactly the way she did, but here is the version I prefer these days.

This recipe is excerpted fromOne Good Dish: The Pleasures of a Simple Meal. Read ourreview.

Ingredients

  • 1 Tbs. butter, softened
  • 2 slices good bread
  • 3 oz. Fontina, Gruyère, or raclette cheese, sliced or grated
  • Sea salt (optional)

Preparation

  • Heat a waffle iron. Butter the slices of bread. Place 1 slice butter side down on the waffle iron, layer on the cheese, and top with the second bread slice, butter side up. Close the waffle iron and let the sandwich cook for about 2 minutes, until golden brown and crisp on the edges. Sprinkle with salt, if desired.

Tip

Excerpted fromOne Good Dishby David Tanis (Artisan Books). Copyright © 2013. Photographs by Gentl & Hyers.

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