Rarebit is basically bread, sometimes potatoe bread drizzled with a hot cheese sauce that includes beer or ale, mustard and Worcestershire sauce mixed with cheddar or goat cheese served on potato bread.

For the tomato soup, consider adding leeks and a goat milk or Pantysgawn (soft goat cheese) and Coriander (Cilantro) topper… assuming you wanna keep it traditionally Welsh.

edit: Forgot to add; that looks really good. Inspiring me to make that soon.

Leeks are very rare in my food desert. But I’ll keep it in mind. I assume you mean fresh coriander and not seed? I didn’t know the Welsh were that adventurous.

This was cheddar, a touch of leftover provolone, Worcestershire sauce, stone ground mustard butter, turkey stock (leftover from soup).

Please post it if you do.

Are the cans of crushed tomatoes cheaper than cans of soup?

I read that as “were-rabbit” and tomato soup, and was very confused for a second.

Damn that rarebit do sound tasty af

I was really excited at first!

I don’t live in Ravenloft.

Dinner with Lord Soth.

Fresh chopped coriander leaf on top, not seed.

The chopped coriander leaf on top is rather common in the south of Wales like Cardiff where it was imported and more readily available than the rest of the Welsh countryside. Still, I find it an irresistible addition to the classic dish.

The goat milk or pantysgawn is added if you want more of a creamy tomato soup, which often helps with the dryness of potato bread when used.

edit: My more Welsh than me Mum says chopped basil or coriander are acceptable.

A 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes can be between $1.52 and $2.82 depending on the brand. Plus 12 oz of turkey stock I made from a free turkey a long time ago. Butter and onion. Overall you are looking at between $2.40 to $3.70 for 40+ oz

Campbell’s soup is 10.75 oz for $1. It would take two cans. Add the recommended amount of water to dilute and and you need 2 cans to get up to the same amount of soup.

So $2 for crap soup or $3.00 ± 0.70¢ for premium. It’s all relatively in the same price zone but with dramatically better results if you spend the extra. And I always have crushed tomatoes and the rest in hand because I use them in a lot of things. Vs condensed soup is saved just to be used as condensed soup when my wife is sick and wants exactly that and nothing else.

And by using stock pantry items I insure pantry rotation and use very few brain cells to create the shopping list. I use the same cans of crushed tomatoes to make pasta sauce or shakshuka.

Canned tomatoes are almost always just as good as fresh in almost every case where you’re simmering something. You can find D.O.P. San Marzanos in a lot of places for only a couples more. 🤌

I thought it said Welsh rabbit lol

Go back with 100 years and that’s exactly what you would hear it called. It is one of those insult terms like “God particle” or “big bang” † that were created by someone to mock something and it ended up becoming the actual name. Add in the usual vowel shifting and consonant drift that occurs over time and rabbit becomes rarebit.

† apparently I only know physics examples

The first time I heard of rarebit was 30 minutes ago on YouTube (discussing the name change) and now this pops up… Feels weird.

But also looks delicious.

Edit: I’m dumb, it was even on lemmy doom scrolling that I saw it: https://slrpnk.net/post/32169431

Welsh rarebit is open faced grilled cheese

Toasted. There is no fat layer used to crisp up the uncheesed side. Just heat to make it toasted

I watched that last night. It’s what made me want to make it, but a different version than his that I was more familiar with.

Alphabet soup*

* One letter per bowl

Looks nice!

I think the change from “rabbit” to “rarebit” was intentional in order to make it sound more serious, rather than just vowel drift.