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Welsh rabbit [Welsh a. + rabbit n.1 Cf. Scotch rabbit Scotch a. 4, and, for the jocular use of the noun, capon n. 3.] A dish consisting of cheese and a little butter melted and mixed together, to which are added ale, cayenne pepper, and salt, the whole being stirred until it is creamy, and then poured over buttered toast: also, simply, slices of toasted cheese laid on toast.
1725J. Byrom Rem. (1854) I. i. 108, I did not eat of the cold beef, but of Welsh rabbit and stewed cheese. Ibid. 109, I had a scollop shell and Welsh rabbit. 1747H. Glasse Cookery ix. 97 To make a Welch-Rabbit. Toast the Bread on both Sides, then toast the Cheese on one Side, and lay it on the Toast, and with a hot Iron brown the other Side. 1771in Mme. D'Arblay Early Diary (1889) I. 130 When we meet to browse over a pot of Castalian Porter and a Welsh Rabbit. 1825Scott 12 Oct. in Fam. Lett. (1894) II. xxiii. 354 A welch rabbit and a tankard of ale. 1854Thackeray Newcomes i, A desire for welsh-rabbits and good old glee-singing led us to the Cave of Harmony. 1876F. E. Trollope Charming Fellow II. xi. 164 She had..prepared a welsh rabbit..for a little party of friends. |