Cheese bread

The cheese bread is one of the sandwiches and refers to a bread with a pad of butter and cheese, which you can replace the butter by other sub- coverings such as different types of cream cheese or even completely neglected.

The cheese bread can have various forms. It can be distinguished both in the selection of the bread and in the selection of the type of cheese. Usually a mixed bread is used, which is spread with butter and mostly covered with cheese slices. This often find hearty tasting cheeses use, including a beer fits, such as Edam or Leerdammer or even a hard cheese such as Emmental. Occasional additions are cucumbers, gherkins and tomato slices.

It is part of - and often still is - to offer food from restaurants and bars with " German cuisine" or home cooking as well as beer gardens and managed refuges. A widespread set was here in two crossed pretzel sticks, cucumber a harp and some paprika.

Cheese bread shall from time immemorial as a simple and saturating bread dish with relatively high energy content. So, for example, were in the 16th century workers and day laborers often as the first meal of the day " early soup and cheese bread." In literary works, the cheese bread is sometimes used in conjunction with simple and everyday home cooking; so includes, for example the Children 's and Household Tales collection of the Brothers Grimm for the Perplexed The peasant, in the one hand, " cheese bread " as simple - and ostensibly solely available - meal plays an important role, and on the other "hidden food" to " maltreat with meat, lettuce, cakes and wine. "