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Cray Fish Soup

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. Cayenne pepper
  2. Water
  3. Anchovies
  4. Stock
  5. a pound of butter
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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

  1. Pick the fish from a hundred of cray fish, put the fish between two plates till wanted, put the dwells into amottar witli half a pound of butter, and about one dozen of anchovies, being first washed and boned ;
  2. iet ill be well pounded, then put it into a stew-pan with about threo pints of good stock (if for meagre me water) set it on the fire to boil for an hour, but very^slow;
  3. then strain it through a hair si^ve, and put it back into the stew-pan with three piiits more of good stock, and the crumb of three French rolls, give it a boil for about ten minutes, then rup it throu^^h the tammj, have a little lobster spawn pounded with a bit of butter and rubbed through with the soup ;
  4. when done put it into a small soup-pot, and the fish as well ;
  5. put it b^ the side of the stove to keep hot, but not boil ;
  6. taste it to know if it want any seasoning ;
  7. put in a little cayenne pepper.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Sieve