| 词组 | Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit |
| 释义 | Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit The dish that goes by the name Welsh rabbit or Welsh rarebit has no rabbit in it, is not especially rare, and may not even be originally Welsh (one of the sources in our files identifies it as "a very old Italian dish"). It consists essentially of melted cheese with a few well-chosen additions (such as beer, mustard, and red pepper) served over toast or crackers. The name Welsh rabbit was first given to this humble dish during or some time before the early 18th century, presumably by the same kind of wag as those who later gave the name Cape Cod turkey to codfish and Arkansas T-bone to bacon. The earliest written evidence for Welsh rabbit is from 1725. When Francis Grose defined Welsh rabbit in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785, he mistakenly indicated that rabbit was a corruption of "rare bit." It is not certain that this erroneous idea originated with Grose, or even that his book had much to do with spreading it, but before long Welsh rarebit had become established as a synonym of Welsh rabbit. Welsh rarebit—sometimes shortened to just rarebit—is now the more common name, although Welsh rabbit is also frequently used. Neither term is likely to occur very often outside of cookbooks and menus, except in discussions about which name is the correct one. |
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