Welsh rarebit The sauce may also be made by blending cheese and mustard into a Béchamel sauce. Some recipes for Welsh rarebit have become textbook savoury dishes listed by culinary authorities including Auguste Escoffier, Louis Saulnier and others, who tend to use the form Welsh "rarebit", emphasizing that it is not a meat dish. Acknowledging that there is more than one way to make a rarebit, some cookbooks have included two recipes: the "Boston Cooking-School Cook Book" of 1896 provides one béchamel-based recipe and another with beer, "Le Guide Culinaire" of 1907 has one with ale and one without, and the "Constance
Welsh Rarebit (radio programme) Meazey, Gladys Morgan, Ossie Morris, Harry Secombe, Stan Stennett, Ann Walters, Albert and Les Ward. At its peak the programme attracted 12 million listeners and remains one of the most popular entertainment shows to have been produced from Wales. The wartime programmes came to an end in December 1944, but "Welsh Rarebit" returned on Saint David's Day 1948 in the BBC Light Programme and ran (now as an hour-long weekly show) from then until July 1951, with a final "Christmas Special" edition being broadcast in December 1952. Welsh Rarebit (radio programme) Welsh Rarebit was a British radio variety show broadcast