Toasted Cheese (the Bewitched Dish)

Ingredients

• Gloucester cheese (new)
• Nutmeg
• Dry toast
• Ground ginger
• Beer
• Brown sugar
• Cloves

Method

1. 1

   Take some Gloucester or other moist cheese and slice it thinly into a chafing dish; having put boiling water in the under part, put in the red-hot heater, and as soon as the cheese begins to oil send it bubbling to table, with a rack of dry toast and a jug of hot spiced ale.

2. 2

   The cheese is helped on to the toast, some of the beer poured over it, the rest handed to drink with it.

3. 3

   To a pint of beer put two cloves, a teaspoonful of brown sugar, a quarter of a teaspoonful of ground ginger, and a little grated nutmeg; bring it to the boil, and strain it into the jug in which it is to be handed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Ocklye cookery book (1909) by Eleanor L. Jenkinson, page 43. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TOASTED CHEESE (the Bewitched Dish) Ingredients Gloucester cheese (new). Nutmeg. Dry toast. Ground ginger. Beer. Brown sugar. Cloves

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