Essence of Anchovy
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United Kingdom
Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.
Ingredients 4 ingredients
Contains
Fish
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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.
- 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
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- Put into a marble morUr ten or twelve fine mellow anchovies, that have been well pickled, and pound them to a pulp.
- Put this into a clean well tinned sauce-pan, then put a tablespoonful of cold water into the mortar, shake it round, and pour it to the pounded anchovies.
- Set them by the side of a slow fire, frequently stirring them together till they are melted, which they will be in the course of five minutes.
- Now stir in m quarter of a <lrain of good cayenne, and let it remain by the fire a few minutes longer.
- Rub it through a hair sievsi :with the- jiia^k of a wooden^ spoon, and keep it stopped very closdy : if the air gets to it, it b spoiled directly, fiaaence of anchovy is made sometimes with sherry, or madeira, instead of water, or with the addition of mushroom catsup.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Mortar and pestle
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Chef's knife
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Wooden spoon