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Yale College Welsh Rabbit (MORIARTY'S) <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> <div class="blockquot"> 1 jigger of beer ¼ teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper ¼ teaspoon mustard 1½ cups grated or shaved cheese More beer Pour the jigger of beer into "a low saucepan," dash on the seasonings, add the cheese and stir unremittingly, moistening from time to time with more beer, a pony or two at a time. When creamy, pour over buttered toast (2 slices for this amount) and serve with still more beer. </div>  There are two schools of postgraduate Rabbit-hunters: Yale, as above, with beer both in the Rabbit and with it; and the other featured in the Stieff Recipe, which prefers leaving it out of the Rabbit, but taps a keg to drink with it. The ancient age of Moriarty's campus classic is registered by the use of pioneer black pepper in place of white, which is often used today and is thought more sophisticated by some than the red cayenne of Rector's Naughty Nineties Chafing Dish Rabbit, which is precisely the same as our Basic Recipe No. 1. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Border-hopping Bunny, or Frijole Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1½ tablespoons butter 1½ tablespoons chopped onion 2 tablespoons chopped pepper, green or red, or both 1½ teaspoon chili powder 1 small can kidney beans, drained 1½ tablespoons catsup ½ teaspoon Worcestershire Salt 2 cups grated cheese Cook onion and pepper lightly in butter with chili powder; add kidney beans and seasonings and stir in the cheese until melted. Serve this beany Bunny peppery hot on tortillas or crackers, toasted and buttered. </div> In the whole hutch of kitchen Rabbitry the most popular modern ones are made with tomato, a little or lots. They hop in from everywhere, from Mexico to South Africa, and call for all kinds of quirks, down to mixing in some dried beef, and there is even a skimpy Tomato Rabbit for reducers, made with farmer cheese and skimmed milk. Although the quaintly named Rum Tum Tiddy was doubtless the great-grandpappy of all Tomato Rabbits, a richer, more buttery and more eggy one has taken its place as the standard today. The following is a typical recipe for this, tried and true, since it has had a successful run through a score of the best modern cookbooks, with only slight personal changes to keep its juice a-flowing blood-red. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Tomato Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour ¾ cup thin cream or evaporated milk ¾ cup canned tomato pulp, rubbed through a sieve to remove seeds A pinch of soda 3 cups grated cheese Pinches of dry mustard, salt and cayenne 2 eggs, lightly beaten Blend flour in melted butter, add cream slowly, and when this white sauce is a little thick, stir in tomato sprinkled with soda. Keep stirring steadily while adding cheese and seasonings, and when cooked enough, stir in the eggs to make a creamy texture, smooth as silk. Serve on buttered whole wheat or graham bread for a change. </div> Instead of soda, some antiquated recipes call for "a tablespoon of bicarbonate of potash." <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> South African Tomato Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> This is the same as above, except that ½ teaspoon of sugar is used in place of the soda and the Rabbit is poured over baked pastry cut into squares and sprinkled with parsley, chopped fine, put in the oven and served immediately. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Rum Tum Tiddy, Rink Tum Ditty, etc. (OLD BOSTON STYLE) <div class="blockquot"> 1 tablespoon butter 1 onion, minced 1 teaspoon salt 1 big pinch of pepper 2 cups cooked tomatoes 1 tablespoon sugar 3 cups grated store cheese 1 egg, lightly beaten  Slowly fry onion bright golden in butter, season and add tomatoes with sugar. Heat just under the bubbling point. Don't let it boil, but keep adding cheese and shaking the pan until it melts. Then stir in egg gently and serve very hot </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Tomato Soup Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 can condensed tomato soup 2 cups grated cheese ¼ teaspoon English mustard 1 egg, lightly beaten Salt and pepper Heat soup, stir in cheese until melted, add mustard and egg slowly, season and serve hot. </div> This is a quickie Rum Tum Tiddy, without any onion, a poor, housebroken version of the original. It can be called a Celery Rabbit if you use a can of celery soup in place of the tomato. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Onion Rum Tum Tiddy <div class="blockquot"> Prepare as in Rum Tum Tiddy, but use only 1½ cups cooked tomatoes and add ½ cup of mashed boiled onions. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Sherry Rum Tum Tiddy <div class="blockquot"> 1 tablespoon butter 1 small onion, minced 1 small green pepper, minced 1 can tomato soup ¾ cup milk 3 cups grated cheese ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Salt and pepper 1 egg, lightly beaten 1 jigger sherry Crackers Prepare as in Rum Tum Tiddy. Stir in sherry last to retain its flavor. Crumble crackers into a hot tureen until it's about ⅓ full and pour the hot Rum Tum Tiddy over them. </div>  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Blushing Bunny <div class="blockquot"> This is a sister-under-the-skin to the old-fashioned Rum Tum Tiddy, except that her complexion is made a little rosier with a lot of paprika in place of plain pepper, and the paprika cooked in from the start, of course. </div> Blushing Bunny is one of those playful English names for dishes, like Pink Poodle, Scotch Woodcock (given below), Bubble and Squeak (Bubblum Squeakum), and Toad in the Hole. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Scotch Woodcock <div class="blockquot"> Another variant of Rum Tum Tiddy. Make your Rum Tum Tiddy, but before finishing up with the beaten egg, stir in 2 heaping tablespoons of anchovy paste and prepare the buttered toast by laying on slices of hard-cooked eggs. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> American Woodchuck <div class="blockquot"> 1½ cups tomato purée 2 cups grated cheese 1 egg, lightly beaten Cayenne 1 tablespoon brown sugar Salt and pepper Heat the tomato and stir in the cheese. When partly melted stir in the egg and, when almost cooked, add seasonings without ever interrupting the stirring. Pour over hot toasted crackers or bread. </div> No doubt this all-American Tomato Rabbit with brown sugar was named after the native woodchuck, in playful imitation of the Scotch Woodcock above. It's the only Rabbit we know that's sweetened with brown sugar. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Running Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> (as served at the Waldorf-Astoria, First Annual Cheeselers Field Day, November 12,1937)  Cut finest old American cheese in very small pieces and melt in saucepan with a little good beer. Season and add Worcestershire sauce. Serve instantly with freshly made toast. </div> This running cony can be poured over toast like any other Rabbit, or over crushed crackers in a hot tureen, as in Sherry Rum Tum Tiddy, or served like Fondue, in the original cooking bowl or pan, with the spoon kept moving in it in one direction only and the Rabbit following the spoon, like a greyhound following the stuffed rabbit at the dog races. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Mexican Chilaly <div class="blockquot"> 1 tablespoon butter 3 tablespoons chopped green pepper 1½ tablespoons chopped onion 1 cup chopped and drained canned tomatoes, without seeds 2½ cups grated cheese ¾ teaspoon salt Dash of cayenne 1 egg, lightly beaten 2 tablespoons canned tomato juice Water cress Cook pepper and onion lightly in butter, add tomato pulp and cook 5 minutes before putting over boiling water and stirring steadily as you add cheese and seasonings. Moisten the egg with the tomato juice and stir in until the Rabbit is thick and velvety. Serve on toast and dress with water cress. </div> This popular modern Rabbit seems to be a twin to Rum Tum Tiddy in spite of the centuries' difference in age. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Fluffy, Eggy Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Stir up a Chilaly as above, but use 2 well-beaten eggs to make it more fluffy, and leave out the watercress. Serve it hot over cold slices of hard-cooked eggs crowded flat on hot buttered toast, to make it extra eggy. </div>  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Grilled Tomato Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Slice big, red, juicy tomatoes ½-inch thick, season with salt, pepper and plenty of brown sugar. Dot both sides with all the butter that won't slip off. Heat in moderate oven, and when almost cooked, remove and broil on both sides. Put on hot plates in place of the usual toast and pour the Rabbit over them. (The Rabbit is made according to either Basic Recipe No. 1 or No. 2.) Slices of crisp bacon on top of the tomato slices and a touch of horseradish help. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Grilled Tomato and Onion Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Slice ¼-inch thick an equal number of tomato and onion rings. Season with salt, pepper, brown sugar and dots of butter. Heat in moderate oven, and when almost cooked remove and broil lightly. On hot plates lay first the onion rings, top with the tomato ones and pour the Rabbit over, as in the plain Grilled Tomato recipe above. </div> For another onion-flavored Rabbit see Celery and Onion Rabbit. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> The Devil's Own <div class="blockquot"> (a fresh tomato variant) 2 tablespoons butter 1 large peeled tomato in 4 thick slices 2½ cups grated cheese ¼ teaspoon English mustard A pinch of cayenne A dash of tabasco sauce 2 tablespoons chili sauce ½ cup ale or beer 1 egg, lightly beaten Sauté tomato slices lightly on both sides in 1 tablespoon butter. Keep warm on hot platter while you make the toast and a Basic  Rabbit, pepped up by the extra-hot seasonings listed above. Put hot tomato slices on hot toast on hot plates; pour the hot mixture over. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Dried Beef or Chipped Beef Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 tablespoon butter 1 cup canned tomato, drained, chopped and de-seeded ¼ pound dried beef, shredded 2 eggs, lightly beaten ¼ teaspoon pepper 2 cups grated cheese Heat tomato in butter, add beef and eggs, stir until mixed well, then sprinkle with pepper, stir in the grated cheese until smooth and creamy. Serve on toast. </div> No salt is needed on this jerked steer meat that is called both dried beef and chipped beef on this side of the border, tasajo on the other side, and xarque when you get all the way down to Brazil. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Kansas Jack Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 2 cups grated cheese 1 cup cream-style corn Salt and pepper Make a white sauce of milk, butter and flour and stir in cheese steadily and gradually until melted. Add corn and season to taste. Serve on hot buttered toast. </div> Kansas has plenty of the makings for this, yet the dish must have been easier to make on Baron Münchhausen's "Island of Cheese," where the cornstalks produced loaves of bread, ready-made, instead of ears, and were no doubt crossed with long-eared jacks to produce Corn Rabbits quite as miraculous.  After tomatoes, in popularity, come onions and then green peppers or canned pimientos as vegetable ingredients in modern, Americanized Rabbits. And after that, corn, as in the following recipe which appeals to all Latin-Americans from Mexico to Chile because it has everything. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Latin-American Corn Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 2 tablespoons butter 1 green pepper, chopped 1 large onion, chopped ½ cup condensed tomato soup 3 cups grated cheese 1 teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce 1 cup canned corn 1 egg, lightly beaten Fry pepper and onion 5 minutes in butter; add soup, cover and cook 5 minutes more. Put over boiling water; add cheese with seasonings and stir steadily, slowly adding the corn, and when thoroughly blended and creamy, moisten the egg with a little of the liquid, stir in until thickened and then pour over hot toast or crackers. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Mushroom-Tomato Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> In one pan commence frying in butter 1 cup of sliced fresh mushrooms, and in another make a Rabbit by melting over boiling water 2 cups of grated cheese with ½ teaspoon salt and ½ teaspoon paprika. Stir steadily and, when partially melted, stir in a can of condensed tomato soup, previously heated. Then add the fried mushrooms slowly, stir until creamy and pour over hot toast or crackers. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Celery and Onion Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> ½ cup chopped hearts of celery 1 small onion, chopped 1 tablespoon butter 1½ cups grated sharp cheese Salt and pepper  In a separate pan boil celery and onion until tender. Meanwhile, melt cheese with butter and seasonings and stir steadily. When nearly done stir the celery and onion in gradually, until smooth and creamy. Pour over buttered toast and brown with a salamander or under the grill. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Asparagus Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Make as above, substituting a cupful of tender sliced asparagus tops for the celery and onion. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Oyster Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 2 dozen oysters and their liquor 1 teaspoon butter 2 eggs, lightly beaten 1 large pinch of salt 1 small pinch of cayenne 3 cups grated cheese Heat oysters until edges curl and put aside to keep warm while you proceed to stir up a Rabbit. When cheese is melted add the eggs with some of the oyster liquor and keep stirring. When the Rabbit has thickened to a smooth cream, drop in the warm oysters to heat a little more, and serve on hot buttered toast. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Sea-food Rabbits <div class="blockquot"> (crab, lobster, shrimp, scallops, clams, mussels, abalone, squid, octopi; anything that swims in the sea or crawls on the bottom of the ocean) Shred, flake or mince a cupful of any freshly cooked or canned sea food and save some of the liquor, if any. Make according to Oyster Rabbit recipe above. Instead of using only one kind of sea food, try several, mixed according to taste. Spike this succulent Sea Rabbit with horseradish or a dollop of sherry, for a change. </div>  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> "Bouquet of the Sea" Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> The seafaring Portuguese set the style for this lush bouquet of as many different kinds of cooked fish (tuna, cod, salmon, etc.) as can be sardined together in the whirlpool of melted cheese in the chafing dish. They also accent it with tidbits of sea food as above. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Other Fish Rabbit, Fresh or Dried <div class="blockquot"> Any cooked fresh fish, flaked or shredded, from the alewife to the whale, or cooked dried herring, finnan haddie, mackerel, cod, and so on, can be stirred in to make a basic Rabbit more tasty. Happy combinations are hit upon in mixing leftovers of several kinds by the cupful. So the odd old cookbook direction, "Add a cup of fish," takes on new meaning. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Grilled Sardine Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Make a Basic Rabbit and pour it over sardines, skinned, boned, halved and grilled, on buttered toast. Similarly cooked fillets of any small fish will make as succulent a grilled Rabbit. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Roe Rabbits <div class="blockquot"> Slice cooked roe of shad or toothsome eggs of other fish, grill on toast, butter well and pour a Basic Rabbit over. Although shad roe is esteemed the finest, there are many other sapid ones of salmon, herring, flounder, cod, etc. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Plain Sardine Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Make Basic Rabbit with only 2 cups of cheese, and in place of the egg yolks and beer, stir in a large tin of sardines, skinned, boned and flaked. </div>  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Anchovy Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Make Basic Rabbit, add 1 tablespoon of imported East Indian chutney with the egg yolks and beer at the finish, spread toast thickly with anchovy paste and butter, and pour the Rabbit over. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Smoked sturgeon, whiting, eel, smoked salmon, and the like <div class="blockquot"> Lay cold slices or flakes of any fine smoked fish (and all of them are fine) on hot buttered toast and pour a Basic Rabbit over the fish. The best combination we ever tasted is made by laying a thin slice of smoked salmon over a thick one of smoked sturgeon. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Smoked Cheddar Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> With or without smoked fish, Rabbit-hunters whose palates crave the savor of a wisp of smoke go for a Basic Rabbit made with smoked Cheddar in place of the usual aged, but unsmoked, Cheddar. We use a two-year-old that Phil Alpert, Mr. Cheese himself, brings down from Canada and has specially smoked in the same savory room where sturgeon is getting the works. So his Cheddar absorbs the de luxe flavor of six-dollar-per-pound sturgeon and is sold for a fraction of that. And just in case you are fishing around for something extra special, serve this smoky Rabbit on oven-browned Bombay ducks, those crunchy flat toasts of East Indian fish. Or go Oriental by accompanying this with cups of smoky Lapsang Soochong China tea. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Crumby Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 tablespoon butter 2 cups grated cheese 1 cup stale bread crumbs soaked with 1 cup milk 1 egg, lightly beaten Salt Cayenne Toasted crackers  Melt cheese in butter, stir in the soaked crumbs and seasonings. When cooked smooth and creamy, stir in the egg to thicken the mixture and serve on toasted crackers, dry or buttered, for contrast with the bread. Some Rabbiteers monkey with this, lacing it with half a cup of catsup, making a sort of pink baboon out of what should be a white monkey. There is a cult for Crumby Rabbits variations on which extend all the way to a deep casserole dish called Baked Rabbit and consisting of alternate layers of stale bread crumbs and grated-cheese crumbs. This illegitimate three-layer Rabbit is moistened with eggs beaten up with milk, and seasoned with salt and paprika. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Crumby Tomato Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 2 teaspoons butter 2 cups grated cheese ½ cup soft bread crumbs 1 cup tomato soup Salt and pepper 1 egg, lightly beaten Melt cheese in butter, moisten bread crumbs with the tomato soup and stir in; season, add egg and keep stirring until velvety. Serve on toasted crackers, as a contrast to the bread crumbs. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Gherkin or Irish Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 2 tablespoons butter 2 cups grated cheese ½ cup milk (or beer) A dash of vinegar ½ teaspoon mustard Salt and pepper ½ cup chopped gherkin pickles Melt cheese in butter, steadily stir in liquid and seasonings. Keep stirring until smooth, then add the pickles and serve. </div> This may have been called Irish after the green of the pickle.  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Dutch Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Melt thin slices of any good cooking cheese in a heavy skillet with a little butter, prepared mustard, and a splash of beer. Have ready some slices of toast soaked in hot beer or ale and pour the Rabbit over them. The temperance version of this substitutes milk for beer and delicately soaks the toast in hot water instead. </div> Proof that there is no Anglo-Saxon influence here lies in the use of prepared mustard. The English, who still do a lot of things the hard way, mix their biting dry mustard fresh with water before every meal, while the Germans and French bottle theirs, as we do. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Pumpernickel Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> This German deviation is made exactly the same as the Dutch Rabbit above, but its ingredients are the opposite in color. Black bread (pumpernickel) slices are soaked in heated dark beer (porter or stout) and the yellow cheese melted in the skillet is also stirred up with brunette beer. </div> Since beer is a kind of liquid bread, it is natural for the two to commingle in Rabbits whether they are blond Dutch or black pumpernickel. And since cheese is only solid milk, and the Cheddar is noted for its beery smell, there is further affinity here. An old English proverb sums it up neatly: "Bread and cheese are the two targets against death." By the way, the word pumpernickel is said to have been coined when Napoleon tasted his first black bread in Germany. Contemptuously he spat it out with: "This would be good for my horse, Nicole." "Bon pour Nicole" in French.  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Gruyère Welsh Rabbit au gratin <div class="blockquot"> Cut crusts from a half-dozen slices of bread. Toast them lightly, lay in a roasting pan and top each with a matching slice of imported Gruyère ⅜-inch thick. Pepper to taste and cover with bread crumbs. Put in oven 10 minutes and rush to the ultimate consumer. </div> To our American ears anything au gratin suggests "with cheese," so this Rabbit au gratin may sound redundant. To a Frenchman, however, it means a dish covered with bread crumbs. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Swiss Cheese Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> ½ cup white wine, preferably Neufchâtel ½ cup grated Gruyère 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce ½ saltspoon paprika 2 egg yolks Stir wine and seasonings together with the cheese until it melts, then thicken with the egg yolks, stirring at least 3 more minutes until smooth. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Sherry Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 3 cups grated cheese ½ cup cream or evaporated milk ½ cup sherry ¼ teaspoon English mustard ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce A dash of paprika Heat cheese over hot water, with or without a bit of butter, and when it begins to melt, stir in the cream. Keep stirring until almost all of the cheese is melted, then add sherry. When smooth  and creamy, stir in the mustard and Worcestershire sauce, and after pouring over buttered toast dash with paprika for color. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Spanish Sherry Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 1 bouillon cube, mashed ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon dry mustard 1½ cups milk 1½ cups grated cheese 1 jigger sherry Make a smooth paste of butter, flour, bouillon cube and seasonings, and add milk slowly. When well-heated stir in the cheese gradually. Continue stirring at least 10 minutes, and when well-blended stir in the sherry and serve on hot, buttered toast. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Pink Poodle <div class="blockquot"> 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon chopped onion 1 tablespoon flour 1 jigger California claret 1 cup cream of tomato soup A pinch of soda ½ teaspoon dry mustard ½ teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon paprika A dash of powdered cloves 3 cups grated cheese 1 egg, lightly beaten Cook onion in butter until light golden, then blend in flour, wine and soup with the soda and all seasonings. Stir in cheese slowly until melted and finish off by thickening with the egg and stirring until smooth and velvety. Serve on crisp, buttered toast with a dry red wine. </div> Although wine Rabbits, red or white, are as unusual as Swiss ones with Gruyère in place of Cheddar, wine is commonly drunk with anything from a Golden Buck to a Blushing Bunny. But for most of us, a deep draught of beer or ale goes best with an even deeper draught of the mellow scent of a Cheddar golden-yellow.  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Savory Eggy Dry Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> ⅛ pound butter 2 cups grated Gruyère 4 eggs, well-beaten Salt Pepper Mustard Melt butter and cheese together with the beaten eggs, stirring steadily with wooden spoon until soft and smooth. Season and pour over dry toast. </div> This "dry" Rabbit, in which the volume of the eggs makes up for any lacking liquid, is still served as a savory after the sweets to finish a fine meal in some old-fashioned English homes and hostelries. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Cream Cheese Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> This Rabbit, made with a package of cream cheese, is more scrambled hen fruit than Rabbit food, for you simply scramble a half-dozen eggs with butter, milk, salt, pepper and cayenne, and just before the finish work in the cheese until smooth and serve on crackers—water crackers for a change. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Reducing Rarebit (Tomato Rarebit)[A] <div class="blockquot"> YIELD: 2 servings. 235 calories per serving. ½ pound farmer cheese 2 eggs 1 level tablespoon powdered milk 1 level teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon gelatin or agar powder 4 egg tomatoes, quartered, or 2 tomatoes, quartered 1 teaspoon caraway seeds ¼ teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon parsley flakes ½ head lettuce and/or 1 cucumber ¼ cup wine vinegar Salt and pepper to taste </div>  <div class="blockquot"> Fill bottom of double boiler with water to ¾ mark. Sprinkle salt in upper part of double boiler. Boil over medium flame. When upper part is hot, put in cheese, powdered milk, baking powder, gelatin, caraway seeds and pepper and garlic powder to taste. Mix. Break eggs into this mixture, cook over low flame, continually stirring. Add tomatoes when mixture bubbles and continue cooking and stirring until tomatoes have been cooked soft. Remove to lettuce and/or cucumber (sliced thin) which has been slightly marinated in wine vinegar and sprinkle the parsley flakes over the top of the mixture. </div> <div class="footnote"> [A] (from The Low-Calory Cookbook by Bernard Koten, published by Random House) </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Curry Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 tablespoon cornstarch 2 cups milk 2½ cups grated cheese 1 tablespoon minced chives 2 green onions, minced 2 shallots, minced ¼ teaspoon imported curry powder 1 tablespoon chutney sauce Dissolve cornstarch in a little of the milk and scald the rest over hot water. Thicken with cornstarch mixture and stir in the cheese, chives, onions, shallots, curry and chutney while wooden-spooning steadily until smooth and sizzling enough to pour over buttered toast. </div> People who can't let well enough alone put cornstarch in Rabbits, just as they add soda to spoil the cooking of vegetables. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Ginger Ale Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Simply substitute ginger ale for the real thing in the No. 1 Rabbit of all time. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Buttermilk Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Substitute buttermilk for plain milk in the No. 2 Rabbit. To be consistent, use fresh-cured Buttermilk Cheese, instead of the usual Cheddar of fresh cow's milk. This is milder. </div>  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Eggnog Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 2 tablespoons sweet butter 2 cups grated mellow Cheddar 1⅓ cups eggnog Dashes of spice to taste. After melting the cheese in butter, stir in the eggnog and keep stirring until smooth and thickened. Season or not, depending on taste and the quality of eggnog employed. </div> Ever since the innovation of bottled eggnogs fresh from the milkman in holiday season, such supremely creamy and flavorful Rabbits have been multiplying as fast as guinea pigs. <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> All-American Succotash Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 cup milk 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 3 cups grated cheese 1 cup creamed succotash, strained Salt and pepper Make a white sauce of milk, butter and flour and stir in the cheese steadily and gradually until melted. Add the creamed succotash and season to taste. Serve on toasted, buttered corn bread. </div> <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Danish Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> 1 quart warm milk 2 cups grated cheese Stir together to boiling point and pour over piping-hot toast in heated bowl. This is an esteemed breakfast dish in north Denmark. As in all Rabbits, more or less cheese may be used, to taste. </div>  <ANTIMG src="images/pointer.gif" width="58" height="41" alt="picture: pointer" /> Easy English Rabbit <div class="blockquot"> Soak bread slices in hot beer. Melt thin slices of cheese with butter in iron frying pan, stir in a few spoonfuls of beer and a bit of prepared mustard. When smoothly melted, pour over the piping-hot, beer-soaked toast. </div>   <hr style="width: 65%;" />      <div><ANTIMG src="images/084.gif" width-obs="450" height-obs="311" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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