I heard on the news this morning that April is National Grilled Cheese Month. I looked it up. It's not an April Fools' joke. But I do suppose the cheese lobby is alive and well in Washington.Who doesn't love a grilled cheese especially with a bowl of warm tomato soup on a cold rainy day? Then again who doesn't love a cheese dream? A cheese what?
I learned that before the grilled cheese became popular in the 1950s there was an open-faced version called the "cheese dream." It is said to have originated during our country's First Great Depression as an "inexpensive supper dish." Recall that the peanut butter sandwich, which was mentioned in Post No. 63, also originated around the same time.
The basic version included bread, butter and cheese. Just like with today's grilled cheese, sliced tomato, ham and bacon were often added to the cheese dream when those ingredients were available.
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