Hard Cider Rarebit

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Make this melted food condiment connected toast erstwhile you're successful the temper for belly-warming comfortableness food. Don't effort to explicate the sanction (a fewer 100 years and an water distant successful origin), and avert your eyes from the nutritional investigation -- for 1 nighttime only.

It's bully to usage idiosyncratic gratin dishes, but you could besides service the food condiment successful a communal cookware (think fondue) for dipping toast batons and pear wedges.

Serve with a crockery of watercress and chunks of fresh, ripe pear.

Ingredients

3 heavy slices crusty bread
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons positive 1 1/2 teaspoons flour
1/2 cupful adust cider
1 cupful grated crisp cheddar cheese
1/2 spoon mustard, preferably Colman's (English, not powdered) oregon Dijon
Pinch freshly grated nutmeg
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 ample Bosc oregon Bartlett pear
1 ample egg
1 1/2 teaspoons pome brandy oregon Calvados
3 sprigs caller thyme (may substitute finely chopped chives)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
410
Fat
21 g
Saturated Fat
12 g
Carbohydrates
36 g
Sodium
480 mg
Cholesterol
120 mg
Protein
15 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
10 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Simple: Effortless Food, Big Flavors,” by Diana Henry (Mitchell Beazley, 2016).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published November 7, 2016

Updated March 15, 2026