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United Kingdom

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

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Crayfish
  2. a pinch of cayenne pepper
  3. an ounce 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. fish butter.
  2. Remove the black eyes, and pound shells and claws in a mortar with about an ounce of butter.
  3. AVhen thoroughly pounded they are to be added to the Mirepoix, and all is to be simmered for an hour and a half, after which it is to be passed through a sieve, heated up, and finished with a piece of butter.
  4. Add now the crayfish tails nicely trimmed and a pinch of cayenne pepper.
  5. Add also, it may be, quenelles of whiting prepared with some of the crayfish butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Mortar and pestle
  • Sieve