Pie of Shrimps Old Elizabethan Recipe

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Pie of Shrimps Old Elizabethan Recipe

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To make a Pie of Shrimps, or of Prawns
Pick them clean from their Shells, and have in readiness your Pie with Butter in the bottom, then lay in your Fish with some large Mace and Nutmeg, and then Butter again, and so bake it: Then cut it up and put in some White Wine and an Anchovy or two, and some Butter, and so serve them in hot; thus you may do with Lobsters or Crabs, or with Crafish.

Pie of Shrimps Old Elizabethan Recipe
The above Old recipe is taken from for Pie of Shrimps is written in totally different way to today's recipe books.

There were no lists of ingredients - these were included as part of the text
Food and ingredient measurements were extremely basic - quantities were not often specified.
Temperature control was difficult and therefore not specified.
Cooking times were vague - and left to the cook to decide.
It was assumed that the reader would already have some knowledge of cooking

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