Name: Butter of Anchovies
Ingredients: fine young anchovies; fresh butter

Butter of Anchovies

Ingredients

fine young anchovies
fresh butter

Directions

Wash the anchovies to remove the pickle.
Bone the anchovies and remove the heads.
Pound the anchovies in a mortar with fresh butter until smooth.
Rub the mixture through a sieve.

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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Butter of Anchovies