Welsh rarebit Spry Cookery Book" of 1956 has one with flour and one without. Hannah Glasse, in her 1747 cookbook "The Art of Cookery", gives recipes for "Scotch rabbit", "Welch rabbit" and two versions of "English rabbit". To make a Scotch rabbit, toast the bread very nicely on both sides, butter it, cut a slice of cheese about as big as the bread, toast it on both sides, and lay it on the bread. To make a Welsh rabbit, toast the bread on both sides, then toast the cheese on one side, lay it on the toast, and with a hot iron
Welsh Rarebit (radio programme) and from June 1941 – when production was taken over by Mai Jones, who was also responsible for such other entertainment shows as "Saturday Starlight" – "Welsh Rarebit" also featured from time to time in the schedules of the BBC Home Service. Although chiefly a variety show, the programme also included such regular features as Eynon Evans playing "Tommy Troubles" and "Dai's Letter to the Forces", a sentimental reflection of life in Wales read by Lyn Joshua. "Welsh Rarebit" featured a host of Welsh entertainers, many of whom became household names; regulars included Wyn Calvin, Maudie Edwards, Eynon Evans, Vera