Weekend Cooking: Welsh Rarebit

This cookbook is fascinating as it reflects the US WWI war effort to conserve and ration food Each housekeeper, therefore, who saves her ounce a day aids in this enormous saving, which will mean so much in the feeding of our men on the fighting line. Chesse and fish are both suggested as meat substitutes

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of cheese
• 1 cup of milk
• ¼ teaspoon of mustard
• ⅛ teaspoon of pepper
• 2 tablespoons of flour
• 1 teaspoon of fat
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 egg

Instruction:

Put milk and cheese in top of double boiler over hot water. Heat until cheese is melted. Mix other ingredients. Add to cheese and milk. Cook five minutes, stirring constantly, and serve at once on toast.

From: Foods that will win the war and how to cook them by Alberta M. Goudiss & C. Houston Goudiss (1918)