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Anchovies

A dish of anchovies served with sweet herbs and chopped hard‑boiled eggs.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Anchovies

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the anchovies and remove the bones.

  2. Cut the anchovies into 4 fillets.

  3. Place the fillets on a dish with chopped sweet herbs.

  4. Chop the yolks and whites of the hard-boiled eggs and add them to the dish.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Anchovies
Provide the salty, savoury flavour that is the base of the salad.
Hard-boiled eggs
Add richness and body through the yolks and firm texture from the whites.

“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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