Shrimp Toast

Ingredients

• 8 rounds of fried bread.
• I 2 ozs. butter.
• 1 tin shrimp paste.
• 3 hard-boiled eggs.
• A little chopped parsley.

Method

1. 1

   Cut out 8 or 10 rounds of bread.

2. 2

   Fry a golden brown colour in smoking hot fat.

3. 3

   Drain on paper.

4. 4

   Mix the contents of the tin of shrimp paste, yolks of hard-boiled eggs, and butter thoroughly together with a wooden spoon to take out all lumps.

5. 5

   Rub the white of egg through a sieve.

6. 6

   Chop the parsley very finely.

7. 7

   Put the shrimp mixture in a forcing tube, and decorate the edge of the toast thickly with it.

8. 8

   Fill up the centre with white of egg and put a little chopped parsley in the centre.

9. 9

   Dish on a fancy paper and garnish with parsley.

10. 10

    Serve cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Samaritan cookery book (1903) by E. P. Watson, page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHRIMP TOAST. 8 rounds of fried bread. I 2 ozs. butter. 1 tin shrimp paste. | 3 hard-boiled eggs. A little chopped parsley.

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