Ham egg and cheese sandwich

There is a bit of back and forth in and out of the pan. The bread is toasted in the pan then removed, then the ham is heated in the pan then removed and the egg is cooked in the pan then removed. 

Then cheese is heated directly in the pan twice. Once for each outside of the sandwich. 

So you will end up with cheese melted on the inside of the sandwich over and under the ham and egg and also cheese toasted on both outside surfaces of the sandwich. This is what makes this sandwich so extraordinary. Two types of cheese in two forms; warm and melted on the inside and toasted on the outside for a completely different cheese character. 

* Bread toasted with butter in the pan first

* Egg scrambled in the pan moved around in the size and shape of the bread

* Ham slices heated in the pan and removed to a plate

* Un-toasted sides of bread spread with raspberry preserves

* 1/4 the cheese sprinkled into the pan in the size and shape of the bread. Toasted side of bread placed downward on the cheese, more cheese on top of un-toasted side smeared with raspberry jam. Heated ham placed on top. Cooked scrambled egg placed on top of the preheated ham. Third fourth of cheese placed on top of the egg. Preserve-smeared side placed over the egg with the toasted side up.

* The whole thing lifted out of the pan and onto the plate.

* Fourth fourth of cheese sprinkled onto the pan in the size and shape of the bread

* The sandwich returned on top of the cheese with the toasted side down so that both outside surfaces will be coated with toasted cheese.

Store-bought sourdough bread. Frankly, it's not nearly good as my own. I'm spoiled. I know what goes into the authentic thing and this is not it. Our ancestors would be appalled. As a matter of fact our ancestors would be intolerable. They would criticize everything. They would criticize every little thing. They would never stop criticizing absolutely every single food-related thing. They wouldn't even recognize the things we call food. To them, everything that we eat is the shadow of the real things that they know. 

Did I say matter of fact? I meant to say my opinion and to me those are facts. 

I have a book here about the food of peasants of yore and it reads like food fit for present day kings. Poor people back then ate much better than we do today.