A couple of years later, I was looking for football party recipes and saw one using hawaiian rolls and it was titled Funeral Sandwiches??? I read the article and the recipe submitter said that they went over well at funerals (bad choice of words- hers not mine :) She also said there was nothing mournful about them. HAHA
We do birthday celebrations one day a month for the coworkers whose bdays are that month. The last time I made them, one of the bday honorees had just had surgery. When I said I was bringing Funeral Sammiches, she said "Because I had surgery??" She's a hoot.
They are simple to make. Course the men folk at work say that the only thing that could make them better would be bacon but they would add bacon to anything.
Ingredients:
24 hawaiian rolls (2 packages)
1 pound thinly sliced ham
1 pound sliced swiss cheese
3/4 cup melted butter
1.5 tbl dijon mustard
1.5 tbl poppy seeds
1.5 tsp worcestershire sauce
1 tbl minced onion
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a large rectangular baking pan. Recipe calls for 9X13 but I used a larger cake pan.
- In a small saucepan, mix together butter, dijon mustard, worcestershire sauce, poppy seeds and dried onion.
- Cut the tops from the bottoms of the rolls and put the bottoms in the greased baking pan. Make sure you know how the tops go back on so that you can cut them correctly once they are baked. I used a serated knife which cuts through the rolls better.
- Layer about half the ham onto the rolls. Arrange the cheese over the ham, and top with remaining ham.
- Place the tops of the rolls onto the the sammiches and then pour the mustard concoction evenly over the rolls.
- Bake in preheated oven until the rolls are lightly browned and cheese has melted. Original recipe called for 20 mins but my oven only takes 10 mins. Slice into individual sammiches through the ham and cheese layers to serve.
These are soo good. I can't decide if it is the minced onion or the dijon mustard that make them so scrumptious. NOM NOM NOM
