To Pot Lampreys

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Time
Cook: 60 min Total: 60 min
Yield
1.0 lamprey
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (6)
seasoning
for baking
Instructions (11)
  1. Skin the lampreys.
  2. Cleanse them with salt.
  3. Wipe them dry.
  4. Beat black pepper, mace, and cloves.
  5. Mix the beaten spices with salt.
  6. Season the lampreys with the spice and salt mixture.
  7. Lay the seasoned lampreys in a pan.
  8. Cover them with clarified butter.
  9. Bake them for one hour.
  10. Order them as the eels, only let them be seasoned, and one will be enough for a pot.
  11. You must season them well, let your butter be good, and they will keep a long time.
Original Text
To Pot Lampreys. SKIN them, cleanſe them with ſalt, and then wipe them dry; beat ſome black pepper, mace, and cloves, mix them with ſalt and ſeaſon them: lay them in a pan, and cover them with clarified butter. Bake them an hour; order them as the eels, only let them be ſeaſoned, and one will be enough for a pot. You muſt ſeaſon them well, let your butter be good, and they will keep a long time.
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