Crayfish Sauce

Name: Crayfish Sauce
Ingredients: carrot; onion; leek; black and white peppercorns; celery; live crayfish; butter; cream; essence of anchovy; carmine if lobster spawn; herbs; thyme; parsley; bayleaf; crayfish; white wine; fish stock; flour; flour; butter; shells; live lobster spawn; mace

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs A.B. Marshall's Cookery Book

By Agnes B. Marshall

Published 1888

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Method

Leave two dozen live crayfish under a running tap for five or six hours to remove the sand; drain them, and dry on a cloth. Put in a stewpan two ounces of