Beef & Horseradish Sandwiches with Watercress Recipe

The first beef and horseradish bread roll is thought to date back to the 1800s.

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the beef and horseradish sandwich dates back to the 1800s

These sophisticated sandwiches, with roast beef, tangy horseradish cream and crunchy watercress, are simply divine.

The story goes that a German baker named William Wahr, who emigrated from Bavaria to Buffalo, New York, created a bread roll that was soft on the inside and hard on the outside, topped with salt and caraway seeds.

Inside the roll were thin slices of rare roast beef and a spreading of horseradish. It was later named ‘beef on weck’, and it remains a very popular sandwich in Buffalo, New York, today.

Beef & Horseradish Sandwiches

Ingredients:

What you will need

• Thinly sliced beef
• Horseradish sauce
• Crème fraîche
• Watercress
• Salt & black pepper
• Fresh brown bread

Method

• Mix horseradish with crème fraîche then season to taste
• Butter slices of bread
• Spread horseradish cream
• Add watercress and beef slices
• Close sandwich, remove any crust and slice into finger-sized sandwiches
• Serve on a china plate sprinkled with a handful of watercress

Serve them with afternoon tea, or pack them for a summer picnic with a bottle of something bubbly.

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