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Article: Welsh rabbit makes a rare bite of a snack: Popular British cheese dish can warm you up on a cold afternoon
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- January 10, 2007
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What's a great snack for a winter afternoon? Welsh rabbit, the
homey, everyday cousin of fancy fondue and party-time nachos. It's
quick, easy, gratifying and fun to play around with.
The concept is elemental. The first rabbits recorded, in the early
18th century, were simply bread and cheese toasted separately before
the fire on long forks and then slapped together to make a sort of
Welsh quesadilla. (Because nobody's sure how the dish's name came
about, some people later decided, for no good reason, to call it
"rarebit.")
When the dish became popular in London clubs and taverns, utensils
called cheese toasters showed up. The first ones were simply pans on