James May finds the ultimate cheese sandwich

Hello viewers, we are back in the bug shelter kitchen still without any decoration on the wall and we round up. I haven't even put up this bulletin board we bought because it just doesn't bother me, but now we have an extra edge buffer. by popular demand and you will see that later in this short video today we are still in the 1970s and the big question we are addressing this time is

cheese

versus

cheese

so in the 1970s there were only three types of cheese available so far . As I know, one of them was cheddar cheese, that's this one here, the other was red Leicester, the third one that wasn't listed was grated parmesan in a little blue pot that smelled like illness and it wasn't until much later in life when I ate a real piece of parmesan that you separated from a block that had been cut from a real wheel.

I realized the parmesan didn't taste like baby, it threw up in your food, but we'll stick with what we had anyway. cheese they're not shade-grown they're not caught they're not oak-aged they're not free trade they're just red cheddar Leicester which is better which is better on a

sandwich

well, let's make cheese and Branston Pickle

sandwich

es with Browns bread and you'll remember from previous sandwich videos that whole wheat bread was exclusive to exotic, sophisticated and quite left-wing people, and my mother, who really liked whole wheat bread, specifically liked Hovis, which is what this is for my mother too.

I briefly owned a 2cv, can you imagine in 1970s Britain, up north, she sold it soon after and bought a box of brown bread? We're going to make a shredded cheddar and pickle browns sandwich and a shredded red Leicester and pickle browns. sandwich and we will try them with Tom, the cameraman, as always, and possibly with Lucy too, no. Lucy doesn't like cheese, we're not going to try them with these, she doesn't like cheese, so you starved to death in the seventies, the other thing. What we are going to present today is something that I discovered was actually created in 1901, although I don't think we got it in Britain or I don't remember seeing it much before the early 90s, if it comes to making Lurpak butter spread .

A shredded cheese and pickle sandwich requires the use of a cheese grater, and if you're a regular viewer of my various culinary endeavors, you'll know that the grater of choice is the Frances mouli grater. Other graters are available. There are other rotary graters available and indeed this one. it's one of those because this is not a mouli grater, this is not my usual grater, this is the baguette banker, it's actually made by these people in the kitchen, but the principle is exactly the same, you have a rotating drum , let's use this one, this one works very well, it also comes with the big thick drum, you can see that the holes are bigger and then the third one, this one, no one knows what it is for in our essential TV equipment, the grater movies, the drum goes in bar. that's how the blob tease comes in, that's where the cheese comes out first we take the two pieces of bread that will form the base of the sandwiches we don't put Lurpak on the top of the sandwich because that's extravagant and we don't know how long we're going to be stuck here new package of Lurpak , look at that standby, spread it on the bread plenty, like they said in the Battle of Britain, flood the Christmas carols, okay, it's done, please, take a proper knife, I mean that one?

I mean no, I'm not talking about the one who is shy the first time. OK. I had a brilliant idea about the knife block. In fact, I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks they are essentially unhygienic because germs pieces of Chinese pieces of spam can inadvertently and then down there and then they are there forever knives going into drawers life blocks go in the good piece now you have to cut your piece of cheese, let's keep that aside for the At the time of making cheddar cheese, first you have to cut the piece of cheese according to your grater.

Once you've used a mouli grater a few times, you know instinctively, but let's imagine this is the first time you want cheese, like I said before. a cheese nut the size of a piece of butter, place the cheese on the grater, so that it is beautiful and grates evenly. Look, it's such a tremendous digital device that it not only grates cheese very well. but it also leaves a lot of air in the tea, so it's a little spongy tons and tons and tons of mousetrap cheese plain sharp cheddar cheese, swamp standard, there you go at the bottom of the cheese grater, some cheese will survive, especially there because the dough back that was too big spin your finger on the drum now this is an experiment it has to be controlled it can't be allowed to be contaminated so I'm going to have to say we'll pause there for a moment and Lucy?

Would you mind going and washing the cheese grater for me? This sinks, it just misses, sorry, actually, while Lucy does that, we'll enjoy this piece of cheese. Would you like a piece of cheese? Tom, yes, sharp, mm-hmm, well, a lot of people have complained. In the other videos I touch things with my fingers, but look, my fingers are very clean, I have washed them, I have even used the sanitary wipes that we have with us all the time, they are always in my bag because when we do things like our specials big tour we take it with us to wash our hands before eating the army food ration, let's cut the red Leicester because I know it was too much cheese, it will actually be a bit like a carpenter, take the right amount to use, there will be a Brief pause now while we wait for the return of the no-thank-you mouli grater, much like being Bruce Forsyth, I mean, a glamorous assistant who just does all the hard stuff, okay, red Leicester, whatever red Leicester is, it's from Leicester, I'm a Fortune Teller and it's red, it really should be called orange Leicester but it can only be seen with very different colored keys, it almost looks like grated carrot and it's been a long time since I've had red Leicester.

I'd say it's probably been two decades. So I can't really remember what it tastes like. Would you like the extra piece of cheese? I also get an extra piece of cheese. Mmm, well right now Branston Pickle. I'm sure you remember that the bunker kitchen has Branston. Pickle geez, these shelves are hopeless, we have Branston Pickle and we have the imposter Branston Pickle, little piece, we don't want little pieces, little pieces did not sustain this great nation during those dark and difficult times of the 1970s, We only had originals, but of course that was the case. They called it original then because there was no alternative, in the same way that in the 1920s the First World War was not referred to as World War I because we had not yet had the other one.

I've seen that mistake made in a movie. the knife is fine, let's do it right because it was still a bit cheesy knife or spoon what's the opinion on that no, I agree but you weren't born in the seventies and you're elegant, I bet your boots on the other piece of bread married That's right, It is a good idea. I'll give it to you, although I think you may be right, it prevents the cheese from becoming too compressed upon application. Oh, Branston Pickle, put the Branson on the other piece of bread, here we go, red Leicester. sandwich ready upside down can you see this my piece of piccoli bread?

Make it quick, blam, it's in cheddar cheese. Can you see a piece of bread with the brown sand pickle? line it up and it's on Tom Witter director and cameraman would you like your sandwiches cut diagonal or rectangular rectangular League good man here we come who's been using the knives in my kitchen the blenders are bastard cheddar cheese Allred Lester sir, you still have your headphones posts, keep in mind that there you will see behind Tom the mattress that is used to muffle the sound when filming in the bunker we have moved it to the kitchen of the bunker it does not make a big difference, it may be more from the seventies I think then I'm anticipating the chairs, I'm very used to each other, okay, thank you, would you like that? just serving you a cheddar cheese sandwich from Warren Buffet should have had a really palate cleanser mmm, it's better, I'll bet it's better, yeah, I see what you're thinking, okay, I'll eat the same thing? the same sandwich you were eating or should I eat the other half, we're going to go ahead and eat them for a long time if we don't waste things down here that we can't afford, so now those are your sandwiches and I'm going to use cheddar cheese first, apart from That, one or two people told me that if you make a cheese and Branston sandwich, you should put a piece of lettuce on the sandwich too, to which I say, I agree, okay, hmm, if you're mine and Tom more or less.

In a time when you're feeling nostalgic for that era, you could rent a pretty beat-up, smoke-spewing diesel bus and go on some sort of fake school trip to something like the Victoria and Albert or the Royal Air Force Museum, or just You could do that. sandwich, but one bite in your mouth and you're there because you would have eaten it before the bus even left. I'm going to cleanse my palate. I'll just take a little piece of this cheese to do that. I prefer cheddar cheese. well, but perhaps as a result of absence or something profound in a year that I had not identified before, the red Leicester is more evocative.

Hope that was helpful, join us next time when we do 70's sonnies that did what they did to you.