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Shrimp Canapees

From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892

Serves 6

Serve in a circle on a dish.

Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1791. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shrimp Canapees. — Cut some slices of stale crumb of bread the third part of an inch thick. Stamp these out with a plain round or oval cutter about two inches in diameter, and fry the rounds in butter till they are lightly browned. Let them get cold, then spread a little shi-imp butter upon them. Ornament them by placing picked shrimps upon them, a,nd place them in a circle on a dish overlapping each other. Put a little parsley

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