Cray Fish
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
- Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.
- Storage. The keeping times and places here are from before refrigeration. Follow current storage guidance.
Ingredients 7 ingredients
- Must
- Prawns
- a pound of sugar
- a pint of fresh cream
- Coffee
- Milk
- Tea
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CrustaceansMilk
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Cook safely
Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.
- Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Method
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- Make a savoury fish-jelly, and put some into the bottom of a deep small dish.
- When cold, lay the cray-fish with their back downwards, and pour more jelly over them.
- Turn them out when cold, and it will make a beautiful dish.
- Prawns may be done in the same way.
- inks CREAM.
- Rich cream for tea or coffee is prepared in the following manner.
- Put some new milk into— an earthen pan, heat it over the fire, and set it by till the next day.
- In order to preserve it a day or two longer, it must be scalded, sweetened with lump sugar, and set ina cool place.
- If half a pint of fresh cream.
- be boiled in an earthen pot with® half’ a pound of sugar, and corked up close in phials when cold, it will keep for several weeks, and be fit for the tea-table.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Spatula