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Marinated Shrimps

Shrimp boiled in salted water, shelled, and mixed with a powdered seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Marinated Shrimps

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the shrimp

  1. Boil 3 quarts of water with 1½ pounds of coarse sea salt until dissolved.

  2. Add 1 gallon of live shrimps and boil for 15 minutes.

  3. Strain the water.

Shell and season

  1. Shell the shrimps immediately.

  2. Keep the shrimps covered with cloths.

  3. Ensure no shell pieces remain.

  4. Lay the shrimps lightly on clean dishes.

  5. Mix in the prepared seasoning evenly.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Live shrimps
Provide the main protein, which firms and turns opaque when cooked in the salted water.
Coarse sea salt
Dissolved in the boiling water to season the shrimp as they cook.

The step that matters

Boil the shrimp for 15 minutes. Boiling for the stated time cooks the shrimp through, firming the flesh. Cooking for too long makes shrimp tough and rubbery, so timing matters.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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