Jane Austen’s Favorite 5-Ingredient Snack Is Also Mine—It’s So Delicious

Go to a pub in London and you will probably find a cheese toasty on the menu. If you introduce yourself a grilled cheese sandwich in the American style, instead introduce yourself to cheesy toast: Schmelzer or fried cheese over a buttery piece toast.

Cheese -toasties have been a British staple for centuries. In fact in the 18th century, Jane Austen, the beloved author of my favorite book ever (pride and PrejudiceDuh), loved her cheese toasties. However, the cheese toasty contains two surprising ingredients: egg and mustard.

Jane Austen’s favorite meal and snack

Martha Lloyd, who lived with Austen for years, documented a recipe in her Household bookIn detail one of a favorite meals: “Insert the cheese and add an egg and a teaspoon of mustard and a small butter … Send it to a toast or in paper shells …”

With this “recipe” in my hand, I knew that I had to recreate a favorite cheese -to -to -the -toasty at home. When I made it for my husband and lunch, I imagined that Elizabeth Bennet would make her servant for Mr. Darcy as a snack.

When cheese -toasties from my toaster were removed from my toaster, they were exquisite. A melting, cheese pudding that was slightly wiggled onto two slices of butter toast. Thanks to the mustard, the cheese tasted particularly hearty and beautifully aged.

With each bite, melting, creamy, tasteful cheese, which is mixed with traces of liquid egg yolk. This intense cream was combined with crispy, crispy butter toast. (Perhaps I should channel my inner oxygen and write Rome coms again instead of food!) My husband raved about the cheese toastie and wanted seconds, just like me. So I made another batch and converted the cheese toasties into grilled cheese sandwiches.

How to make my version of Jane Austen’s cheese toasty

To make Austen’s favorite cheese first toasty, butter butter both sides of two slices of bread. As far as the kind of bread is concerned, my pain, you jour, sour, but use your favorite bread. Crack a large egg in a medium -sized bowl.

Mix in a teaspoon of mustard (I used Gray Poupon Dijon mustard, although in retrospect honey mustard would have been even better), a teaspoon of soft, unsalted butter and a half-cold cup of chewed cheddar cheese. Season with a little salt and pepper and stir until they are combined. Then put the mixture evenly over the two bread slices.

Roast the bread until the cheese melts and the mixture the pudding like a soft omelet, and the bread is crispy, only a few minutes. I didn’t want to boil the egg in the cheese mixture because I am a fool for a liquid egg yolk. Alternatively, you can grill or grill the toast in a buttered pan or pan. Simply cover the pan or pan with a lid to melt the cheese.

I made two versions of Austen’s favorite cheese toasty. I had the one that I made in the pan with another piece of buttered, roasted bread to make a grilled cheese sandwich. The other I remained open. Toasty with a face open is a great quick snack, and the grilled cheese sandwich works better than full meal.

Tips that make Jane Austen’s cheese toastie even better

I experimented with cheese toasty and sprinkled it with a dust of peppers and furikake. If you do not have a furicake, you can sprinkle chopped chives or spring onions over the kitschy pudding instead.

If you are interested in spicy food, you can surpass the cheese toasty with chopped kimchi. The kimchi will give toasty a nice kick and add crunch. Alternatively, you can drizzle honey honey via cheese toasty to balance heat and balancing sweetness.

In view of the great taste of Austen, if you had lived on Earth for longer than your short 41 years, we might have had classic cookbooks from the author and her novels, to which we could cook during the restoration Emma and the 1995 BBC version of pride and Prejudice with repetition.