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What is a Mousetrap?

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IngridO
What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 08:11AM
My memories of a mousetrap are
Spaghetti and Cheese toasted on one half of a hamburger bun

Is that right?
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Jenna
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 08:29AM
To me, a mousetrap is vegemite/marmite on white sandwhich bread, topped with cheese and then put under the grill. Preferably cooked until quite dry. Sometimes on a halved long white roll, and then it is only cooked until cheese is melted.
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Lynne2
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 09:44AM
Marmite and grated cheese grilled on sandwich bread for me too. I've never seen one on a roll, but bread rolls probably weren't invented when I last ate one winking smiley

Lynne2
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noeleendickson
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 10:14AM
I made them for my children but now do it for my grandies and they love them.
I do mine different. Spread marmite on bread and top with grated cheese and I bake them until dry.
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IngridO
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 11:52AM
OK so this is GROSS but I thought the whole spaghetti thing was to represent MOUSE guts (EWWWWW)

What was the marmite/ vegemite?

My memories are from the school tuckshop....25 years ago!
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Griz
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 03:38PM
Marmite/Vegemite and cheese on baked bread here too!
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Lucy
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 10:13PM
Mousetraps at my school tuckshop back in the 60's were half a hamburger bun topped with spaghetti and grated cheese toasted. They were extremely popular! My kids loved it if I made them with the addition of chopped onion in the grated cheese.
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Stephanie D
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 11:46PM
Marmite and cheese here too!
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Lyn V
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 11, 2014 11:47PM
My Dad used to make them as a way to use up old bread. Cut into soldiers top with vegemite/marmite cheese on top & pop into our oven which was a coal range until they were crunchy. yummy
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Joey
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 14, 2014 04:40AM
Okay, we must have a weird family. Ours were grated cheese mixed with a little tomato sauce and a little Worcester sauce, spread on toast and grilled. I make them occasionally for the kids and they love them. Somehow they feel more substantial than just cheese on toast.
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MMD
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 18, 2014 05:56AM
Toast bread on one side, spread some tomato relish, top with grated cheese, sprinkle with paprika and place under the grill -that was our 'mousetrap' in Hawke's Bay, 1950 !



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 05/21/2014 01:36AM by MMD.
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TPANDAV
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 18, 2014 06:29AM
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.
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Dawn
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 18, 2014 06:35AM
I'm a north islander and we often had them (marmite and cheese) for lunch to dip into soup.
Regards,
Dawn.
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Griz
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 18, 2014 02:29PM
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.
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mommamurf
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 19, 2014 02:38AM
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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Stephanie D
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 19, 2014 02:51AM
Bacon was an extra luxury item that was added to ours once in a blue moon.
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polly
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 21, 2014 04:44AM
Mousetraps at our house were vegemite/marmite on white bread, grated cheese and topped with a bit of tomato relish baked until crispy but not teeth breaking smiling smiley yum, now that I've read these I have a bit of a yearning for one. Mousetraps feel like winter comfort food to me
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Stephanie
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 24, 2014 01:22AM
Yes, I've always known mousetraps to be cheese and bacon on toast and grilled to melt cheese and cook bacon. Must be an Invercargill thing.
Stephanie
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Marnie
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 24, 2014 03:57AM
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.
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Stephanie D
Re: What is a Mousetrap?
May 24, 2014 09:20AM
South Islander here- just cheese and marmite cooked by my father who was also from the South Island
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