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Anchovy Powder

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Anchovy Powder

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pound the anchovies in a mortar.

  2. Rub them through a sieve.

  3. Mix with the finest flour to form a paste.

  4. Roll into thin cakes, similar to gingerbread.

  5. Dry the cakes before a slow fire in a Dutch oven until crisp.

  6. Pound or grate the dried cakes into a fine powder.

  7. Store in a well-stopped bottle.

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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