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Essence of Anchovies

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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.
  • Curing. Old curing amounts and salts may be unsafe. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a pint of water
  2. Beef
  3. Anchovies
  4. Mince
  5. Stock
Contains Fish Read from the ingredients, not verified. Check labels.

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.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Take fifty or sixty anchovies, mince them with- out the bone, but with some of their own liquor well strained;
  2. add to them a pint of water, in which let them boil till' dissolved, which generally happens in five minutes.
  3. When cold, strain and bottle it, taking care to close it well.
  4. N.
  5. B.
  6. Should your stock of anchovies become dry, the deficiency may be well supplied by pouring upon them beef brine.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
  • Sieve