This is a follow up posting to go with the recipe from 1875.

This is a very interesting recipe; it appears in almost every cook book in some form or other.  It is also known as Welsh Rabbit, which somehow morphed from the rarebit.  There is no meat in this recipe, it is mostly a blend of cheeses, milk and sometimes Beer, on top of toast.  Sometimes it has spices added, such as paprika, but I think these are additions of each individual cook and just depends on how they have learned to make it. 

I have recipes for it that go back into the early 1800’s, I really do not know how old it goes. 

I remember Mom serving this for dinner as a kid in the 1950’s and 60’s, I loved it and often wondered why we never had it after the late 60’s.    

From Harrowgate in the UK 1850’s through 1900’s

Toasted Cheese

Great Grandma Kirk’s Recipe Book 1890’s through the early 1900’s; Cambridge PA

Rarebit

More recipes for Welsh Rarebit

Palmyra PA early 1900’s dated 1904

East Rochester New York 1908

Irwin PA from the early 1900’s through about the 20’s. 

Welsh Rarebit

Le Habra California from the 1930’s through 1966

This is a different twist on this recipe!

Micco Florida 1940’s through the 80’s

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