Shrimp Pie
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 100 shrimps
- 2 large slices stale bread
- 2 glasses white wine
- salt
- pepper
- Cayenne
- nutmeg
- mace
- thyme
- parsley
- butter
- 1 pint boiled shrimps
- 1 tablespoonful butter
- 5 tomatoes
- small amount celery
- thyme
- parsley
- 1 bay leaf bay leaf
- 1/2 pint oyster liquor
Instructions
- Boil and pick from shells one hundred shrimps.
- Mix well with two large slices stale bread free of crust, moistened with two glasses white wine, and highly seasoned with salt, pepper, Cayenne, nutmeg, mace, chopped thyme and parsley.
- Crisp the bread crusts, and grate over the mixture after it is packed in a deep dish.
- Dot well with butter, and bake in a hot oven.
- Serve with a sauce made by cooking together a pint of boiled shrimps, a tablespoonful of butter, five chopped tomatoes, a little celery, thyme, parsley and bay leaf, also chopped.
- Cook three to four minutes, then add half a pint of oyster liquor, boil up, and serve very hot.