What is more fitting than Dagwood's Chocolate Sandwich for National Sandwich Day. I believe that Dagwood probably would have added lots of other ingredients such as bananas and peanut butter, and that would be great, but how can you go wrong with chocolate, butter, and bread?
I've posted several Chocolate Sandwiches over the years, so today I turn to my "Tie-In" Cookbook collection and specifically Blondie's Cook Book for today's recipe. Dagwood is the iconic King of Sandwiches. My Dad used to make Dagwood Sandwiches... they were sandwiches that contained every thing but the 'kitchen sink'. FYI: My father never added chocolate.
Dagwood Bumstead, in case you don't know, is one of the main characters in comic artist Chic Young's long-running comic strip Blondie. He first appeared in the U.S. sometime prior to February 1933.
What's Cooking America defines the Dagwood Sandwich as a multi-layered sandwich with a variety of
fillings. The term is used to denote a sandwich put together so as to
attain such a tremendous size and infinite variety of contents as to
stun the imagination, sight, and stomach of all but the original maker. Dagwood sandwiches is a term so well-known that it's in the Webster's New World Dictionary.
According to the creator of the comic strip, Murat Bernard “Chic” Young
(1901-1973), the only thing that Dagwood could prepare in the kitchen
was a mountainous pile of dissimilar leftovers precariously arranged
between two slices of bread. Dagwood became known for his huge
sandwiches he created on evening forays to the refrigerator. The comic
strip is produced today under the direction of the creator's son, Dean
Young, the strip has continued to keep up with the times.
Blondie's Cook Book: Chic Young's Classic Cook Book with New Comic
Art Selections by His Son Dean Young (Gramercy Books, New York 1947,
1996)
This Comic says it all:
CHOCOLATE SANDWICHES RECIPE: Not sure how many sandwiches (or
layers) this is supposed to make, but that's a lot of sugar, even if the chocolate is probably sugarless. I've never
followed this recipe, so I'm thinking the amount of sugar might be a mistake.
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