Fish & Seafood · Morecambe Bay, Lancashire

Morecambe Bay Potted Shrimps

Name: Morecambe Bay Potted Shrimps
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4 (starter)
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 400g cooked brown shrimps (peeled); 150g unsalted butter; ¼ tsp ground mace; pinch of cayenne; ¼ tsp grated nutmeg; Juice of ½ lemon; salt and white pepper; Hot buttered toast, to serve

Tiny brown shrimps sealed beneath spiced, clarified butter — the taste of Morecambe Bay, served with hot toast for the butter to melt into.

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 10 min
Total: 25 min
Yield: Serves 4 (starter)
Difficulty: Easy
Era: Georgian

Ingredients

400g cooked brown shrimps (peeled)
150g unsalted butter
¼ tsp ground mace; pinch of cayenne; ¼ tsp grated nutmeg
Juice of ½ lemon; salt and white pepper
Hot buttered toast, to serve

Method

Melt the butter gently and let it settle; skim off the foam and pour off the clear butter, leaving the milky solids behind.
Warm the shrimps in the clarified butter with the mace, cayenne, nutmeg, lemon and seasoning for 2 minutes — do not cook them.
Pack into ramekins and seal with the remaining butter.
Chill until set, then bring back to cool room temperature before serving with hot toast.

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