The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.].
- Esther Copley
- Date:
- 1838
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The housekeeper's guide, or a plain and practical system of domestic cookery / by Esther Copley ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![ANCHOVY SAUCE. Pound three anchovies in a mortar, witli a small bit of butter; rub it through a hair-sieve with the back of a wooden spoon; stir it into half a pint of thick melted but- ter. borne people add a little lemon juice and cayenne : others prefer the simple flavour of the anchovy. A table- spoonful of essence of anchovies strained into the melted butter, answers the same purpose. This is proper with most kinds of sea fish, whether fried or boiled: mackarel is almost the only exception. LOBSTER SAUCE. Choose a fine heavy lien lobster, with plenty of spawn; carefully pick out all the spawn and red coral which runs ™the back ’ P°uud ^ f a paste, with half an ounce of buttei , cut up the meat of the hack and claws into small squares, or pull it to pieces with two forks; make ready half a pint or more of melted butter, according to the quantity of sauce required; stir the lobster into it when boiling hot, and keep it on and off the fire two or three Umes, till the lobster is hot through, and well mixed • but do not let it boil, lest the brilliant red should be dim- med. Any other flavour may be added, if approved • as cayenne, anchovy catsup, or lemon juice ; hmZstieZ ? Prefer .the smil)le flavour. A spoonful or two of cream L SrPs'STentd L°bSt7 SaUCe acc-P-ies tur ’ S{Umon> soles, and some other kinds of sea fish. OYSTER SAUCE. more10 tr^ V' make a half-Pi”t of sauce, not ljn * A °'1 °Pen lile Oysters, save every drop of their ZZr F T]y iree from slle11 to If the oyster s , “ot^expert and careful, the liquor must he strained, but ,1 the end of cleanliness can ie answered](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21534202_0103.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
