Anchovy Butter
Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven
Ingredients
Directions
Bone, wash, and pound the fresh mellow anchovies in a mortar.
Press the mixture into small potting cans.
Cover the anchovies with clarified butter.
If using for deviled biscuits, add a little cayenne.
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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