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Welsh Rarebit

A historical recipe from Seasoning Suggestions Revealing the Chef's Seasoning Secrets for Improving Over One Hundred and Fifty Dishes With Lea & , by Lea & Perrins Limited (1922).

A historical recipe

Seasoning Suggestions Revealing the Chef's Seasoning Secrets for Improving Over One Hundred and Fifty Dishes With Lea & Perrins' Sauce, by Lea & Perrins Limited (1922). Project Gutenberg eBook #61678.

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 Seasoning Suggestions Revealing the Chef's Seasoning Secrets for Improving Over One Hundred and Fifty Dishes With Lea & , by Lea & Perrins Limited (1922). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #61678 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61678). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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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 teaspoonful of Lea & Perrins' Sauce.
  2. 1 tablespoonful of butter.
  3. 2 cupfuls of grated American cheese.
  4. ½ cupful of cream.
  5. Buttered soda crackers or toast.
  6. Melt the butter in the blazer over the hot-water pan, in which the water should be boiling.
  7. Add the grated cheese and the cream alternately, a little at a time, allowing the cheese to melt slowly.
  8. Add the Lea & Perrins' Sauce.
  9. Keep over the hot water while serving and serve on buttered crackers or toast.
  10. Serve Lea & Perrins'= on the side, to be used for a flavor to suit each taste.