POTTED CRAYFISH

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861

Source: The Book of Household Management
Time: Cook: 15 min Total: 15 min
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (5)

100 crayfish ↝ Crayfish, cooked [Shellfish]
pounded mace, pepper and salt to taste ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
pepper and salt to taste ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt to taste ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
2 oz. butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]

Instructions (3)

Boil the fish in salt and water; pick out all the meat and pound it in a mortar to a paste.
Whilst pounding, add the butter gradually, and mix in the spice and seasoning.
Put it in small pots, and pour over it clarified butter, carefully excluding the air.

Original Text

POTTED CRAYFISH.

247. INGREDIENTS.—100 crayfish; pounded mace, pepper and salt to taste, 2 oz. butter.

Mode.—Boil the fish in salt and water; pick out all the meat and pound it in a mortar to a paste. Whilst pounding, add the butter gradually, and mix in the spice and seasoning. Put it in small pots, and pour over it clarified butter, carefully excluding the air.

Time.—15 minutes to boil the crayfish. Average cost, 2s. 9d.

Seasonable all the year.

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