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 pie the food paste Vegemite as an ingredient. Rabbit pie was a staple dish of the American pioneers. Thanks to the increasing demand for wild and fresh ingredients, rabbit pie is often seen on the menus of fashionable restaurants and gastropubs. Two huge rabbit pies are part of traditional Easter celebrations in the English village of Hallaton, Leicestershire. In Beatrix Potter's children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", the title character's father was put into a rabbit pie for going into Mr McGregor's garden. Rabbit pie Rabbit pie is a game pie consisting of rabbit meat in a gravy with other