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Welsh rarebit or Welsh rabbit (/ ˈ r ɛər b ɪ t / or / ˈ r æ b ɪ t /) [1] is a dish of hot cheese sauce, often including ale, mustard, or Worcestershire sauce, served on toasted bread. [2] The origins of the name are unknown, though the earliest recorded use is 1725 as "Welsh rabbit", a jocular name as the dish contains no rabbit ; the ...
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Welsh cuisine (Welsh: Ceginiaeth Cymreig) encompasses the cooking styles, traditions and recipes associated with Wales.While there are many dishes that can be considered Welsh due to their ingredients and/or history, dishes such as cawl, Welsh rarebit, laverbread, Welsh cakes, bara brith and Glamorgan sausage have all been regarded as symbols of Welsh food.
Billed as "a programme of variety and topicalities", it began life as a monthly 30-minute feature in the BBC's wartime Forces Programme, and was designed for the entertainment of armed forces personnel, in particular for those whose home was in Wales, but quickly became popular generally, and from June 1941 – when production was taken over by Mai Jones, who was also responsible for such ...
Welsh folk rarely ate rabbit due to the cost and as land owners would not allow rabbit hunting, so the term is more likely a slur on the Welsh. [13] [30] [31] The name evolved from rabbit to rarebit, possibly to remove the slur from Welsh cuisine or due to simple reinterpretation of the word to make menus more pleasant. [32]
Corn flour or flour thickens at 100 °C (212 °F) and as such many recipes instruct the pastry cream to be boiled. In a traditional custard such as a crème anglaise, where eggs are used alone as a thickener, boiling results in the over-cooking and subsequent curdling of the custard; however, in a pastry cream, starch prevents this. Once cooled ...
In this position, she devised Welsh Rarebit, a variety show originally broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme and intended for Welsh people serving in the armed forces during the Second World War. "We'll Keep a Welcome", with music credited to Jones and words by Lyn Joshua and Jimmy Harper, was written to close each edition. [2]
As the eminent English grammarian H.W. Fowler put it in 1926, "Welsh rabbit is amusing and right, and Welsh rarebit stupid and wrong." From Evan Morris's book "The Word Detective" (ISBN 0-452-28264-0) page 209.