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
Toast is the "...earliest [printed] citation the "Oxford English Dictionary" research staff has of this usage." Another popular idiom associated with the word "toast" is the expression "to toast someone's health", which is typically done by one or more persons at a gathering by raising a glass in salute to the individual. This meaning is derived from the early meaning of toast, which from the 1400s to the 1600s meant warmed bread that was placed in a drink. By the 1700s, there were references to the drink in which toast was dunked being used in a gesture that indicates respect: "Ay,