Welsh Rarebit: The perfect cheese on toast recipe, for tea time

Valerie O’Connor has a Proustian moment when a simple question prompts a trip to the land of dinner in the middle of the day and a time when tea was had at teatime.

Who’s making the tea? Are you making the tea? On a drive from Dublin to Limerick the other day, my youngest son asked me about tea time:

“How can teatime be called teatime when you don’t actually have any tea?”