Shrimp Toasts

Ingredients

• Threepennyworth of picked shrimps
• an ounce of butter
• a little devil seasoning
• a dust of mace

Method

1. 1

   Test the shrimps for saltiness and rinse if too salty.

2. 2

   Prepare the toasts and keep them hot.

3. 3

   Melt butter in a pan, add shrimps, season, and heat.

4. 4

   Arrange the shrimps over the toasts and pour the remaining butter over them.

5. 5

   Serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Fifty dinners (1895) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

SHRIMP TOASTS. 113 just cover the nuts in a stewpan, flavour this with vanilla, set over the fire, and gently stew the chestnuts till they are quite soft, by which time they will have absorbed the syrup almost entirely. Pass them now through the wire sieve as with vanilla. you would potatoes, and keep the puree ready. While the chestnuts were stewing, make a custard with half a pint of milk (boiled and cooled), a gill of cream, three whole eggs and two yolks, or omit the cream and use three-quarters of a pint of milk ; sweeten with an ounce of sugar, and work the custard in a basin over a vessel containing hot water till it is rich and creamy. Cool it as soon as it is ready. In the third place make a coffee-cupful of caramel in this manner : — Choose a small glazed earthenware casserole or sugar boiler, put into it a tablespoonful of castor sugar, stir this over a low fire till the sugar melts and turns to a rich dark brown syrup, pour this into the mould to form a cap ; let it harden ; mix the puree and custard, pour this in cold, cover the mould, and steam as described for banana pudding. Menu ix., turning out in the same way. Butter the mould well beforehand. Threepennyworth of picked shrimps will suffice for these toasts. Test them, and if too salt put them into a strainer, and pour boiling water over them, then give them a douche of cold 111 • toasts. water, and dry them m a cloth. Prepare the toasts, keep them hot in the mouth of the oven on a drainer, and treat the shrimps as follows : — Melt an ounce of butter in a ^rt?</^-pan, setting it over a low fire, put in the shrimps, turning them about in the 9 FIFTY DINNERS. 114 butter while you dredge over them a little devil seasoning and a dust of mace

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.