To make Sprats taste like Anchovies
From The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts
Pleasant on bread and butter or toast.
Presented as published in 1900. 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 The frugal housewife, or, Housekeeper's and servant's guide, being a carefully selected assortment of useful family receipts, in cookery, confectionery, making wines, preserving, pickles, &c., with every necessary information connected with the above arts (1900), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
To make Sprats taste like Anchovies. Salt them well, and let the salt drain from them ; in twen¬ ty-four hours wipe them dry. Mix four ounces of common salt, an ounce of bay salt, an ounce of saltpetre, a quarter of an ounce of salt prunel, half a tea-spoonful of cochineal
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