Shrimp Sauce

Origin: Tidewater Virginia

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Wash half a pint of shrimps very clean.
  2. Mince them and put them in a stew-pan with a spoonful of anchovy liquor and a pound of thick melted butter.
  3. Boil it up for five minutes, and squeeze in half a lemon.
  4. Toss it up, and put it in a sauce-boat.

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