Anchovy Butter

Excellent

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Ingredients

  • Fine anchovies, 12
  • butter, ¾ lb.
  • cayenne, sm

Method

Scrape the skin quite clear from a dozen fine mellow anchovies, free the flesh entirely from the bones, and pound it as smooth as possible in a mortar; rub it through the back of a hair-sieve with a wooden spoon; wipe out the mortar,