Shrimp Sauce (1)

Pick some shrimps nicely from the shell, put them into melted butter, add a table-spoonful of lemon pickle and vinegar; heat it.

Shrimp Sauce (2)

Shell a pint of shrimps; pick them clean, wash them, and put them into half a pint of good melted butter. A pint of unshelled shrimps is about enough for four persons.

Observations:

Some stew the heads and shells of the shrimps, (with or without a blade of bruised mace), for a quarter of an hour, and strain off the liquor to melt the butter with, and add a little lemon-juice, cayenne, and essence of anchovy, or soy, cavice, etc.; but the flavor of the shrimp is so delicate, that it will be overcome by any such additions.

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If your shrimps are not quite fresh, they will eat tough and thready, as other stale fish do.