Hot Brown
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A Hot Brown is a hot sandwich originally created at the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky by Fred K. Schmidt in 1926.
The Hot Brown is an open-faced sandwich of turkey and bacon, covered in mornay sauce and baked or broiled until the bread is crisp and the sauce begins to brown. Many Hot Browns also include ham with the turkey, and either pimentos or tomatoes over the sauce, and imitation Hot Browns sometimes substitute a commercial cheese sauce instead of the mornay sauce, but fans of the dish usually decry this subsitution. Some restaurants even offer a 'veggie brown' nowadays to attract vegetarians as the recipe is easy to modify with avocado, or, less commonly, soy burger.
The dish is a local specialty and favorite of the Louisville area, and is popular throughout Kentucky.
On menus within the Louisville area, the Hot Brown often appears as titled "Louisville Hot Brown", elsewhere in Kentucky outside Louisville as the "Kentucky Hot Brown" and outside the commonwealth simply as "Hot Brown."
In the northern English town of Shefield, Hot Brown is often used as slang for Tea.
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- Hot Brown Recipe — from the Brown Hotel (includes some history)
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