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How to make it

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• Melt the butter into a double boiler.
• Add the Ale,mix it in well with the butter.
• When the Ale is warm,stir in the 1 pound of sharp strong cheese.
• Stir constantly with a fork until the cheese is melted,add the paprika and mustard if you wish.
• ~ Mary Cameron who lived in Glamorgan made the first Welsh Rabbit in the 7th Century.In those days Welsh were great lovers of wild rabbit.When a hunter returned with no rabbit by the ears after promising his wife a fat rabbit for supper it was in deed a sorry state of affairs
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• As it happened one day to Arthur Cameron husband of Mary.She saw Arthur coming over the fields with nothing to show for his hunting.She loved him and did'nt want him to feel bad that he had come home empty handed.She quickly cut up some strong cheese in a pot near the fire,added some bacon drippings and a pint of ale.When Arthur arrived home she gave him a kiss on the cheek and served him this wonderful sauce on freshly toasted bread.This recipe was so good that it was not long before it was used all over England,Scotland and Ireland.
• Wales the home of the Welsh people is a region that has produced some of the world's finest cooking.They are very ardent cooks and proud of their prowess in the kitchen.They are so conscious of good cooking that they chose the marvelous tasting leek as their national flower.In battle they wore a leek in their helmets as early as the 6th Century.
• King Arthur and his Knights of the round table in the 6th Century spent as much time studying food recipes as they did fighting.Kind Arthur himself was one of the best pudding cooks of his time.~