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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" (possibly ironic or jocular as the dish contains no ...
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]
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.
2 September 1998 3.85 15 2 Pony Club: The Cotswolds, Gloucestershire: Pork with clams; Chocolate crème brulée; Welsh rarebit soufflé; Pete's Pommy Pommes; 9 September 1998 4.31 16 3 The Cambridge Eight: Boat club Cambridge University: Rabbit Isabel; Asturian bean and sausage soup; Peas with lettuce; Cheese and honey pie; 16 September 1998 4. ...
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 ...
Welsh rarebit is thought to date from the 18th century, although the original term "Welsh rabbit" may have been intended as a slur against the Welsh. [ 161 ] [ 162 ] [ 163 ] Another use of cheese in a traditional Welsh dish is seen in Glamorgan sausage , which is a skinless sausage made of cheese and either leek or spring onion, [ 164 ] which ...
A yeast-risen donut with chocolate frosting and a creamy vanilla-flavored custard filling: a miniature version of the Boston cream pie. [113] [114] It was designated the official donut of Massachusetts in 2003 [115] after the Boston cream pie itself was chosen as the state dessert in 1996. Boston cream pie: Northeast Boston
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.