Granny's Pork Cheese Cuban Sandwich
1 loaf Cuban bread (OR French bread, if Cuban is not available)
6 tbl prepared or coarse-grain mustard
4 oz ham, thinly sliced
8 oz cooked pork shoulder or loin, thinly sliced
4 oz queso blanco or white American cheese, thinly sliced
Sliced dill pickles
2 tbl unsalted butter
Method :
Preheat an oven with a rack placed in the lower third to 350 degrees. Cut loaf
vertically into four 6 inch pieces, then cut each piece horizontally not quite
all the way through. Open and spread both sides with mustard. Place ham atop 1
side of each open sandwich and pork atop the other. Place 1 slice of cheese atop
the ham and another atop the pork, then top 1 side with a line of pickle slices.
Close each sandwich, pressing top and bottom together.
Melt butter in a pan, preferably nonstick, and place the sandwiches in the pan.
(If necessary, use 2 pans or cook 2 sandwiches at a time.) Transfer the pan to
the oven and carefully place a cast-iron skillet atop the sandwiches. Bake until
the sandwiches are crisp on top and bottom, and the filling is warm, 7 to 8
minutes.