Potted Prawns No. 1

Ingredients

• Prawns
• Salt
• cayenne
• Cloves
• Clarified butter

Method

1. 1

   Shell the prawns, season well with cayenne and salt, and just a taste of pounded cloves.

2. 2

   Pack them tightly in pots, cover with a little butter, and set in a moderate oven for a few minutes.

3. 3

   When cold, cover with clarified butter and keep in a cool place.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

cloves 2 tablespoonfuls curry 1 apple Tablespoonful chutney Tablespoonful butter 1 small bulb of garlic 2 onions 1 pt. of liquor from the heads and pickings Tablespoonful cocoanut. j»owder Prawns. Mode. — Slice the onions very fine and put them in a saucepan with the butter, and when well cooked add the apple very finely chopped with the cloves, chutney, curry powder and garlic (this must be minced finely). Boil the heads and pickings of prawns with the cocoanut for an hour (this you can put on and can be boiling while you are making your curry) ; strain this into the curry and allow to simmer for half an hour, then add the prawns a quarter of an hour before serving and allow to simmer. Dish with rice and Bombay duck. 119_T0 SEEVE PEAWNS. A very pretty way is to stick them into an orange or an apple cut in half ; stick them in until the fruit is well covered, or put them in a wineglass head out. 120— DEVILLED PEAWNS. 1 pt. of prawns 4 tablespoonfuls curry powder 1 lb. butter 2 tablespoonfuls anchovy sauce 2 eggs J pt. milk. 2 tablespoonfuls Worcester sauce Nutmeg Saltspoonful cayenne. Mode. — Mix the butter, eggs, sauces, cayenne, curry, &c,, in a sancepan and allow to boil, stirring all the time, then add the milk, and when all is boiling, thicken with a little cornflour, then add the prawns. These also can be served with rice or toast. 121— PEAWNS A LA FEANOAISE. J lb butter Juice 2 lemons 1 pt. prawns Cayenne Anchovy sauce White sauce. Praivns. Mode. — Melt the butter with the juice of the lemon - and then add the prawns and anchovy sauce ; allow them to stand on the fire for about half an hour until they are a nice pink color (the lemon draws the color from the prawns), then add the white sauce and cayenne ; allow all to boil, and serve very hot on toast with a slice of lemon. 122— PEAWNS MANTALINI. J pt. prawns ^ tin mushrooms 2 tomatoes 2 ozs. butter Little white sauce Cayenne, salt and mustard. Mode. — Put the prawns, mushrooms and tomatoes through a mincing machine, place them in a saucepan with the butter, white sauce and other ingredients, allow to come to a boil, serve on toast with slices of lemon. This is very nice for sandwiches. 123— PEA WN SOUFFLE. 1 pt. prawns 3 eggs Breadcrumbs Milk A little cornflour Salt and pepper. Mode. — Mince the prawns, and pound with the bread crumbs, (which have been previously soaked in milk), and the j^olks of eggs in a mortar until perfectly smooth, then add the whites beaten to a froth, the pepper and salt and a teaspoonf ul of cornflour mixed in milk, put into a pie-dish, cover with crumbs and a little butter, and bake. 124— SCALLOPED PEAWNS. 1 pt. white sauce I pt. prawns 2 hard boiled eggs Butter Pepper and salt Breadcrumbs. Mode. — Six scalloped shells, divide the prawns equally, then chop the eggs and also divide into the six shells, cover all with the white sauce into which pepper Pratons, and salt has been added, cover with the breadcrumbs and a piece of butter in the centre of each^ then bake until a nice brown. 125— PEA WN PATTIES. Puff paste Prawns White sauce Pepper and salt. Mode. — Make a very light puff paste, cut into squares of three inches, mix the prawns (chopped into four) in the white sauce with the pepper and salt, put a tablespoonf u] of the mixture in the centre of each piece of paste, then turn over corner ways, nip the paste around the edges, have a panful of boiling fat and fry. Serve straight out of the pan with fried parsley. 126— PEAWNS IN ASPIC. 1 pt. picked prawns 1 qt. aspic jelly 2 hard boiled eggs A little beetroot A little cucumber. Mode. — Arrange the prawns around the top of your mould and put in a little aspic jelly (recipe found amongst jellies), allow partially to set, then add a layer of the white of the eggs, a little more jelly, and then set a layer of beetroot and more jelly, repeat until your mould is filled, keep on ice until required. 127— POTTED PEAWNS No, 1. Prawns Salt and cayenne Cloves Clarified butter Mode. — Shell the prawns, season well with the cayenne and salt and just a taste of pounded cloves, put them down tight in pots, the closer the better, as it is not well for the butter to run in between them too much ; put a little butter over them, set them in a moderate oven for a few minutes, and when cold ju«t cover with clarified • butter. Keep in a cool place. Prawns. 128- -POTTED PRAWNS No. 2. 1 lb. shelled prawns Cayenne Salt

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