Mock Crab Toast

Ingredients

• two ounces of cheese
• a dessert-spoonful of anchovy sauce
• a dessert-spoonful of made-mustard
• one of vinegar
• a pinch of Nepaul pepper
• a little salt
• the yolks of two eggs
• a tablespoonful of butter

Method

1. 1

   Pound cheese with anchovy sauce, mustard, vinegar, pepper, salt, and egg yolks.

2. 2

   Mix thoroughly and proceed as for Welsh rarebit.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 130. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a pinch of Nepaul pepper, and the yolks of two eggs. Mix well together in a basin, and work the mixture thoroughly smooth. Toast a couple of neat slices of bread very carefully, butter them on both sides, place them on a dish that will stand the oven, spread the cheese mixture over them pretty thickly, and bake for ten minutes. If you want a smooth yellow surface, neither too brown nor dry, place your toasts in a buttered pie-dish^ and spread a sheet of common white paper over them : after ten minutes baking in a really hot oven, they will be ready, so remove the paper and serve forthwith. A good plain Cheese toast, made as followR; is not tc 232 CULINARY JOTTINGS FOR MADRAS. be despised : — Cut a few very tliin slices of a nice fresh cheese, or grate two ounces of a hard dry one : put the cheese upon a small well buttered baking tin, and place it in the oven ; watch it carefully, and when it begins to dissolve, stir some butter into it, give it a dust of Nepaul pepper, and serve it upon crisply fried toasts quickly. To make a very toothsome cheese toast in the dining room I have found the following method successful. Take two table-spoonfuls of grated cheese, and mingle with it a des- sert-spoonful of mustard powder, a pinch of salt and dust of Nepaul pepper. Light a spirit lamp, and, in a little frying-pan placed over it, melt a dessert-spoonful of butter (tinned butter does capitally) ; when melted, shake evenly over the butter the powdered cheese, and stir Avell. As soon as the cheese looks creamy, stop, and pour it over some hot buttered toast brought in on the in=:tant from the verandah. Mock crab toast. — This variety of Welsh rarebit is generally popular. Pound two ounces of cheese with a dessert-spoonful of anchovy sauce, a dessert-spoonful of made-mustard, and one of vinegar, a pinch of Nepaul pep- per, and a little salt, the yolks of two eggs, and a table- spoonful of butter

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