Welsh Rarebit with Ale and Mustard

Mon, 20 May 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Welsh rarebit is proof that the British can, when they try, make something profound out of cheese on toast. It is a cooked cheese sauce, thick and savoury, sharpened with ale and mustard and spread onto toast, then grilled until it blisters and bubbles and threatens to slide off the plate. Done properly it is nothing like a slice of cheddar melted under the grill; it is spoonable, glossy, deeply savoury, with a sharp back-note that keeps you going back for more. It is a fifteen-minute lunch that eats like something you fussed over.

Bara Brith: Welsh Tea Loaf with Soaked Fruit

Sun, 03 Dec 2023 11:00:00 +0000

Some of the best baking in Britain came out of thrift, and bara brith is a fine example: a loaf built to use up leftover strong tea and a bag of dried fruit, requiring no yeast, no kneading and barely any skill, yet producing something genuinely lovely. The fruit swells overnight in the tea until it is plump and dark, the batter takes ten minutes to stir together, and the finished loaf slices into moist, spiced, freckled bread that is somehow better with butter than it has any right to be. It is the bake I press on anyone who claims they cannot bake.

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Welsh Rarebit with Ale and Mustard

Bara Brith: Welsh Tea Loaf with Soaked Fruit