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Personal Chef Recipes - by Mrs Beeton
TO BOIL PRAWNS OR SHRIMPS.
| Ingredients: | 1/4 lb. salt to each gallon of water.
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| Method: | Prawns should be very red, and have no spawn under the tail;
much depends on their freshness and the way in which they are cooked.
Throw them into boiling water, salted as above, and keep them boiling
for about 7 or 8 minutes. Shrimps should be done in the same way; but
less time must be allowed. It may easily be known when they are done by
their changing colour. Care should be taken that they are not
over-boiled, as they then become tasteless and indigestible.
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| Time: | Prawns, about 8 minutes; shrimps, about 5 minutes. |
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Source: The Book of Household Management Mrs. Isabella Mary Beeton |
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