] The toast was made with a toasting fork, and the cheese softened over a fire, typically with mustard, pepper, sometimes butter, and often porter (ale) or port (wine) and the mixture was spread on the toast, and sometimes, but not usually browned before the fire.

] A great treat for the nursery was cinnamon toast - hot buttered toast sprinkled with sugar and dusted with a little finely ground cinnamon - I recommend it.

for your very informative post! You have made me hungry for Welsh rarebit (I didn't know it was also called Scotch rarebit.)

My younger sister & I used to eat cinnamon toast all the time, but we toasted the bread in a modern electic toaster.