Anchovies, Fried
INGREDIENTS. -1 tablespoonful of oil, 1/2 a glass of white wine, sufficient flour to thicken, 12 anchovies.
AVERAGE COST for this quantity, 9d.
Mix the oil and wine together, with sufficient flour to make them into a thickish paste; cleanse the anchovies, wipe them, dip them in the paste, and fry of a nice brown colour.
TIME. hour.
SEASONABLE all the year.
Anchovies, Potted, or Anchovy butter. INGREDIENTS.-2 dozen anchovies, lb. of fresh butter, cayenne, pounded mace.
AVERAGE COST, 2s.
Wash the anchovies thoroughly; bone and dry them, and pound them in a mortar to a paste. Mix the butter and seasoning gradually with them, and rub the whole through a sieve. Put it by in small pots for use, and carefully exclude the air with a bladder, as it soon changes the colour of anchovies, besides spoiling them.
APPLE CHARLOTTE. parsley, a few drops of lemon juice, Nepaul pepper or cayenne, butter for frying. AVER- AGE COST, 2d. each.
Cut the bacon into little squares each large enough to roll round an oyster, sprinkle over each the chopped herbs, lay on the oysters, season with the pepper and a drop of lemon juice, roll up and run on a skewer and fry in butter till the bacon is cooked. Cut the bread into squares or stamp out small rounds and fry them a bright golden colour and on each lay an oyster. Serve very hot garnished with lemon and parsley.
TIME.-3 minutes to fry the oysters.