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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 4 ingredients

  1. Wine
  2. a pinch of butter
  3. Ale
  4. Salt

Cook safely

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

  • 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. Grate or break into small pieces quarter-c[ound of cheese (medium aged "Young America" the best).
  2. Put this in warm stew pan, containing a pinch of butter;
  3. add half a wine glass of ale and a little salt ;
  4. keep stirring over brisk fire until cheese is reduced to a thick sauce.
  5. Pour over slice of toast on hot plate.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

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

From Uncle Sam's hand-book of useful information (1901), printed page 65, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/unclesamshandboo00holm

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.