cheeselets

Noun

cheeselet (plural cheeselets)

1. (Malta) A small, usually roundish lump of cheese; a baby cheese; specifically, a particular type made with sheep's milk in Malta.
   • CHEESELETS. A saucer three-fourths full of grated cheese, mix with it the whites of thee eggs beaten stiff, add a pinch of salt, a few drops of Worcestershire sauce. Form into balls, roll in cracker crumbs (very fine), drop in boiling lard. To be made during the dinner and served directly with the...[1899, Mary Shelley Pechin, “Cheese Preparations”, in The 3-6-5 Cook Book: For Use 365 Days in the Year, Cleveland, Oh.: The Helman-Taylor Company, →OCLC, page 154
2. (US, archaic) A baked dish of bread and cheese covered with a mixture of eggs and milk.
   • CHEESELET. […] Line a pudding dish with bread; then sprinkle cheese over; then bread and so on until the dish is full, having a layer of bread on top, buttered side down. […] Pour the custard over the bread and cheese and bake in a moderate oven for twenty or twenty-five minutes.1898, “Cheese”, in The Puritan Cook-book. Composed of Contributed Recipes. […], Rochester, N.Y.: Union and Advertiser Press, →OCLC, page 84