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The Ultimate Turkey Sandwich

Makes 1 Sandwich and multiplies easily

Cranberry sauce and cream cheese could change your life. Or at least your sandwiches. They made this one of the best turkey sandwiches I've ever had. I discovered it at a little general store restaurant in Story, Wyoming, a village at the base of the Big Horn Mountains. It's now our Thanksgiving Sunday tradition.

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  • Comfort Food
  • Holidays
  • Main Dishes
  • Thanksgiving
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Ingredients
  • 2 slices good tasting, firm white bread
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons cream cheese (not low fat), at room temperature
  • 1 whole scallion, thin sliced (optional)
  • 2 to 3 tablespoons cranberry sauce (whatever you have in the house is fine)
  • A generous amount of thin-sliced turkey (light or dark meat is your call)
  • Dark, grainy mustard (we use Gulden's)
  • 1 leaf of lettuce
  • Mayonnaise
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Instructions

1. Spread 1 slice of bread with the cream cheese. Sprinkle with scallions, then spread with the cranberry sauce. Top with turkey. Spread a generous film of mustard over the turkey. Top with the lettuce. Then spread a thin film of mayonnaise over the second slice of bread. Put the sandwich together. Cut in half or quarters, and enjoy.

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In 1994, acclaimed food writer and cooking teacher Lynne Rossetto Kasper was receiving accolades for her debut book, The Splendid Table, which at that time was the only book to have won both the James Beard and Julia Child Cookbook of the Year awards. Among the many people enchanted by the book was producer and foodie Sally Swift, who thought the time could be right for a radio program on food.

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