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SHRIMP PIE (another way)

Pick three pints of shrimps from the shells. Mix with them two or three anchovies, washed, boned, and shredded very fine, some shredded parsley, two chopped shallots, and a handful of very small bleached mushrooms. Butter well the bottom of a pie-dish with good fresh butter, and put the shrimps into it, seasoning them with a little black pepper and some cayenne; if not salt enough add a little, making allowance, however, for the salt of the anchovies, for it too salt the pie will be worthless. Place over the shrimps several lumps of fresh butter, amounting in all to a quarter of a pound, also two hard-boiled eggs, shelled and cut into quarters. Pour into the dish a good glassful of sherry, and also a good glassful of broth, in which has been previously mixed a dessert-spoonful of mushroom ketchup, and a tea-spoonful of soy. Put a good substantial crust over the pie, and bake in a quick oven.