Real Welsh Rarebit
Description
Welsh rarebit is a smooth cheese sauce flavored with mustard and beer served over toast and broiled until bubbly for a fancy version of cheese on toast.
Ingredients
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1/4 cup butter
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1/4 cup all-purpose flour
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1/4 teaspoon pepper
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1/4 teaspoon dry mustard
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1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
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2 drops hot pepper sauce (such as Tabasco®)
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1 cup whole milk
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1/2 cup beer
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1/2 pound Cheddar cheese, shredded
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6 slices bread
Directions
1
Gather all ingredients.
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Melt butter in a saucepan over low heat. Stir in flour, salt, pepper, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, and hot pepper sauce. Cook and stir until smooth and bubbly, about 5 minutes.
3
Remove the saucepan from the heat. Gradually stir in milk, then return to heat and stir continuously until mixture comes to a boil. Slowly pour in beer; cook and stir for 1 minute.
4
Melt Cheddar cheese into mixture in small portions until completely incorporated. Set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven's broiler.
5
Toast bread slices on 1 side. Arrange on a baking sheet with the untoasted side facing up.
6
Spoon cheese sauce over untoasted side.
7
Cook under the preheated broiler until cheese sauce is bubbling and golden, 2 to 3 minutes. Serve hot.