Welsh rarebit cause boby, good roasted cheese." In Boorde's account, "cause boby" is the Welsh "", meaning "baked cheese", but whether it implies a recipe like Welsh rarebit is a matter of speculation. The word "rarebit" is a corruption of "rabbit", "Welsh rabbit" being first recorded in 1725 and the variant "Welsh rarebit" being first recorded in 1785 by Francis Grose. According to the "Oxford English Dictionary", 'Welsh rarebit' is an "etymologizing alteration. There is no evidence of the independent use of rarebit". The word "rarebit" has no other use than in Welsh rabbit. "Eighteenth-century English cookbooks reveal that it was then
Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with "Rabbit, Run" and "Rabbit Redux", and concludes with "Rabbit At Rest". There is also a related 2001 novella, "Rabbit Remembered". "Rabbit Is Rich" was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction This third novel of Updike's "Rabbit" series examines the life of Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, a one-time high school basketball star, who has reached a paunchy middle-age without relocating from Brewer, Pennsylvania, the poor, fictional city of his birth.