Shrimp or Oyster Curry

Ingredients

• four ounces of butter
• the juice of two limes
• one teaspoonful of corn starch
• two tablespoonfuls of curry powder
• half a cup of cream
• a large cup of picked shrimps

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter and fry chopped onions and garlic.

2. 2

   Add lime juice, corn starch, curry powder, cream, salt, pepper, and cayenne.

3. 3

   Stir until thick, thin with milk, add shrimps and oysters, cook for two minutes after boiling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Joe Tilden's recipes for epicures (1907) by Joe Tilden, page 4. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Shrimp or Oyster Curry Melt four ounces of butter and fry in it four young onions and a clove of garlic chopped. Add the juice of two limes. Stir into this one teaspoonful of corn starch, two tablespoonfuls of curry powder and half a cup of cream with salt, pepper and cayenne. Stir this rapidly over the fire until very thick. Thin with milk until it is the proper consistency, then add a large cup of picked shrimps

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