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Welsh Rarebit

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 6 ingredients

  1. Ale
  2. Milk
  3. Mustard
  4. Black pepper
  5. Butter
  6. three spoonfuls of porter

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Oven and hot trays. Use dry oven gloves for trays and dishes: a hot tray looks just like a cold one. Open the oven door away from your face and let the first rush of heat out.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Slice down some good rich cheese rather thinly into a veryclean stewpan with a quarter its weight of butter, and two or three spoonfuls of porter, good ale, or new milk, as you please, and according to the quantity of the cheese;
  2. flavor to taste with freshly-ground black pepper and dry English mustard.
  3. Stir over the fire until all is thoroughly melted and of a thick creamy consistency ;
  4. pour it over hot buttered toast, which has been placed in a hot tin or a fireproof dish ;
  5. brown the surface in the oven or not, as you like, but make very hot, and serve at once.
  6. This requires careful watching, because if it be in the least overcooked it will be leathery.
  7. It should be served directly it is ready.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Wooden spoon
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Credit

From Soyer's standard cookery (1912), printed page 307, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/soyersstandardco00soye

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.