Hot Ham and Cheese Sandwiches

image by jeffreyw via Flickr CC license

My mom used to make these yummy hot ham and cheese sandwiches for special events. They are quick to make and taste really good. Figure about 4 to 6 sandwiches per pound of ham, depending on how much ham you put on each bun.

This is what you need:

• sliced ham — any kind is fine: shaved, spiral sliced, leftover.
• sliced baby swiss cheese (1 or 2 slices per sandwich; or any kind of cheese you like)
• hamburger buns — poppy seed, onion, sesame seed, Hawaiian buns or plain
• mustard (any kind) — I like spicy brown or horseradish mustard best.
• finely minced onion (or use onion powder)
• butter

Soften 4 Tablespoons of butter. Add 2 T of mustard.
Mix in about 1 to 2 T. of minced onion (or more to taste).
Some recipes include 1 or 2 teaspoons of Worchestershire sauce in the mix as well. Mix all together.

Spread the butter/mustard/onion mixture on both sides of each hamburger bun, laying all the buns out on a cookie sheet or other flat surface.

Onto each bun bottom place a slice (or 1/2 slice of cheese) and your desired amount of ham (sliced or shaved). Top the ham with another slice of cheese (or 1/2 slice). Put a bun lid on each sandwich. Hopefully they all match up!

Wrap each ham and cheese sandwich in foil, sealing each little package tightly.

Place all the foil wrapped sandwiches on a cookie sheet. It is okay to stack them if you have too many.

Bake at 400 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Unwrap carefully. Enjoy!

I like to serve these with vegetables (carrots, celery, cucumber, radish) and dip (ranch, dill or spinach). They are also good with home made soup of any sort.  Crispy green salad?  You bet.

image of open faced ham and cheese fondue sandwich by Chris Gallevo via Flickr CC license

Okay, the photo above is not of this recipe.  But it does look like a pretty amazing hot ham and cheese sandwich, right?

Here are some links to similar recipes:

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/hot-ham-n-cheese
http://andreadekker.com/delicious-baked-sandwiches/
http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/hot-colby-ham-sandwiches

This sandwich is not similar but this guy’s site has many delicious looking recipes for many different kinds of sandwiches:  http://whats4dinnersolutions.com/2015/03/03/sammich-pr0n-pulled-pork-with-slaw/

 

 

 

Name Change: The Tromp Queen COOKS!

vintage sign, image by The Tromp Queen CC license 4.0

I decided to change the name of The Heat is ON! to

The Tromp Queen COOKS!

In celebration of this change, I’m presenting several “old” recipe posts from my original “The Tromp Queen” in blog new posts here on The Tromp Queen COOKS!  These are some of my very favorite recipes and I feel they deserve more visibility than they currently have (which is buried in a post entrancingly called “Recipe Re-visit”).

I hope you enjoy reading through these recipes and that you will try one or more of them.  Please let me know what you think!

I tried to go back through to be sure all the old links will still work, etc.  Please let me know if you come across any glitches with the new domain name.

THANK YOU for reading my posts.  I love comments!

The BEST Chocolate Chip Scones

Chocolate Chip Scones

Semi-sweet chocolate chips (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This recipe could change your life.  Seriously.

I got this wonderful recipe from my dear friend, Anne.  She gave it to me years ago.  I wrote it in my favorite recipe notebook on the very first page.  The numbers are a bit smudged, but thankfully I nearly have it memorized.

Recipes I’ve been saving for 15 years or more. This scone recipe is on the very FIRST page of this notebook!

(This notebook was the topic of another blog post:  http://haskerj.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/what-once-was-lost-now-is-found/)

This recipe makes the lightest, richest, more delectable scones!  They are not dry or crumbly at all.  You MUST use the cream!  No substitutes.

Enjoy!  Happy baking.  Please let me know how you like them.

Three variations: white chocolate with fresh raspberries, cinnamon chip, and toffee chocolate chip. Photo by Anne Marie

To make the fabulous scones you will need:

2 c. flour
1 T. baking powder
1/2 t. salt
1/4 c. sugar (plus a bit more for sprinkling on top)
1 1/4 c. heavy cream
3/4 c. choc. chips (I use semi-sweet, special dark are excellent, too — mini chips or regular — as you please)
later for brushing on before baking:  2 T. melted butter

Heat oven to 425 degrees.

You need a large mixing bowl, a fork or whisk, a spatula, a clean space to knead, and a good cookie sheet (ungreased).

Mix dry ingredients together (flour, baking powder, salt, 1/4 c. sugar).  Whisk or fluff with a fork to mix.

Add chips, then cream.  Don’t stir too much at this point, just until it all hangs together.

Empty the blob out onto a lightly floured surface and knead it about 10 times working in a bit a flour if it is too sticky.

Pat into a 9 or 10 inch circle.  Brush the top and sides w/ the melted butter (1 to 2 T.) and sprinkle w/ the extra sugar (1 to 2 T. is plenty).

Cut into 12 wedges and separate.

Place on ungreased (or spray w/ PAM) baking sheet.

Bake 14 to 15 min. until just barely beginning to get light brown.  You can bake them longer if you like them browner or crunchier on the bottom (but you would be wrong…).

These are EXCELLENT with very cold milk or very hot, freshly ground and brewed coffee.  🙂  Or both.

comments:

• You must use heavy cream.  Anything else will not work.
• I have skipped the kneading and dropped them onto a cookie sheet from a scooper.  Pat them down w/ fingers and sprinkle w/ sugar.  This is ok in a time crunch, but is not quite as spectacularly good.
• It is baking powder, not baking soda.  Don’t ask me how I know this.
• I believe the true way to bake scones, is to pat the circle onto the cookie sheet then cut and bake them that way without separating them.  I’ve never done it that way b/c I rarely follow directions unless absolutely necessary.
• I use a serrated knife to cut the scones and a spatula to put them on the cookie sheet.
• This recipe is from my dear friend, Anne Donovan.  🙂
• I once tried to figure out how to count these on Weight Watchers.  I came to the conclusion that they count as a “mistake.”
• Did I mention these are delicious?

As far as I can tell this recipe has been PINNED on Pinterest more than 50 times.  It could be a lot more than that, because my blog stats record a lot of views of this recipe on The Tromp Queen blog.  However famous these scones have become, though, I think of my dear friend, Anne, every single time I make them and wish I could be eating them with her and chatting over a nice hot cup of freshly brewed coffee.  ❤