Curried Prawns

Ingredients

• about fifty prawns
• a small minced onion
• about 2 ozs. of oiled butter
• one dessert-spoonful of curry powder
• half a pint of milk
• salt
• pepper
• the juice of half a lemon

Method

1. 1

   Skin prawns, mix with onion, oiled butter, flour, curry powder, and milk.

2. 2

   Season and place in a buttered paper-bag.

3. 3

   Cook in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes.

4. 4

   Serve with boiled rice.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The paper-bag cookery manual (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Prawns. Skin about fifty prawns, if preserved ones are used, soak, wash, and drain them first ; sprinkle over a small minced onion and about 2 ozs. of oiled butter ; next, dredge over a little flour, and one dessert-spoonful of curry powder, then moisten with half a pint of milk ; season to taste with salt and pepper, and the juice of half a lemon

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