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What is a Mousetrap?
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Are Mousetraps a South Island speciality? I grew up in Auckland and had never heard of them until a friend from Christchurch brought some to a party as canapés. They were just cheese and marmite on bread, completely dry, tooth-breakingly hard and nobody ate them!
I don't think I've run across them since.
I don't think I've run across them since.
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Baked bread with marmite +/- cheese was often given to children instead of rusks when my kids were little. Mousetraps are definitely known in the lower Nth Island.
A bit of googling found a reference to the "mousetrap" being the crust of bread with marmite and toasted cheese that was used to bait the mousetrap. I imagine mousetraps (the snack) originated with just cheese and some adventurous cook added marmite when it became available.
But spaghetti on toast/bun with cheese is not a mousetrap, not in my book anyway.
A bit of googling found a reference to the "mousetrap" being the crust of bread with marmite and toasted cheese that was used to bait the mousetrap. I imagine mousetraps (the snack) originated with just cheese and some adventurous cook added marmite when it became available.
But spaghetti on toast/bun with cheese is not a mousetrap, not in my book anyway.
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When I was growing up in Invercargill, mousetraps - in our house at any rate - were toasted bread slices spread with cheese and topped with bacon, then put under a medium grill for a minute or so until the bacon was cooked and the cheese melted. I still do these from time to time for lunch with a bowl of soup.
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It might be a South Island thing, Stephanie, because that's how I remember them. From time to time we might become adventurous and add something such as pickles or a little chopped tomato, even some vegemite or marmite but the basis was cheese and bacon.
When I make that type of thing now I tend to use a basic Welsh Rarebit topping. Still delicious.
When I make that type of thing now I tend to use a basic Welsh Rarebit topping. Still delicious.
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