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Welsh Rarebit

A historical recipe from Better Meals for Less Money, by Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917).

A historical recipe

Better Meals for Less Money, by Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #34509.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Source and licence

From Better Meals for Less Money, by Marietta McPherson Greenough (1917). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #34509 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34509). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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What was changed: As printed, from the book's text; Project Gutenberg's header and licence removed. Ingredient lines were read out of the text by a program. A historical recipe, not current advice.

United Kingdom. Associated with United Kingdom by a demonym leading its title: Welsh (confidence 0.55). "Associated with" means only that the evidence named here links this recipe to that place. A recipe isn't labelled as representing an entire country because a source associates it with one, and regional origins are kept where the source gives them.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. 1 tablespoon butter 1/4 teaspoon paprika 1 tablespoon flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1 cup hot milk 1/8 teaspoon soda 1/2 pound cheese cut fine Dash of cayenne 1/2 teaspoon mustard 1 beaten egg Melt butter, add flour, and when well mixed add milk, and stir until smooth;
  2. add cheese and seasonings, and cook until cheese is melted;
  3. add egg, cook two or three minutes, and serve on hot toast or crisp pilot crackers.
  4. The egg may be omitted.