Best Potted Shrimp By Vincent Price Recipes

POTTED SHRIMP

Steps:

• In a large skillet cook shallots with bay leaf in 1 tablespoon butter over moderate heat, stirring, until soft. Add shrimp and salt and pepper to taste and cook, stirring occasionally, until shrimp are pink and cooked through, about 3 minutes. Add Sherry and boil mixture until almost all liquid is evaporated. Cool mixture and discard bay leaf. Transfer shrimp with tongs to a cutting board, reserving shallot mixture, and chop fine.
• In a bowl stir together remaining 5 tablespoons butter and cream cheese until smooth. Stir in shrimp, shallot mixture, lemon juice, chives, and salt and pepper to taste and transfer to a 1 1/2-cup crock. Chill potted shrimp, covered, at least 4 hours and up to 24.
• Serve potted shrimp with crackers or Melba toast.

VINCENT PRICE SCAMPI AURORA A LA HARRY'S BAR IN VENICE

Steps:

• Preheat your broiler.
• Get all the ingredients for the hollandaise sauce ready to go.
• Arrange the prepared shrimp in a shallow "au gratin" dish.
• Whisk together the juice of 1/2 of a lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper, and sprinkle mixture over the shrimp in the dish.
• Put the shrimp under the broiler for 3 minutes, then turn the shrimp and broil for 4 minutes longer.
• When shrimp have been turned and are on their last 4 minutes, make the hollandaise sauce.
• Put the egg yolks, 1 tablespoon lemon juice, salt, and Tabasco into a blender and whir on low speed.
• With blender running, gradually add the hot melted butter in a steady stream.
• If you've timed it right, the shrimp should be done: pour the hollandaise sauce over the shrimp in the dish and return it to the broiler for 2 minutes or until the top is lightly browned.
• Serve immediately.

POTTED SHRIMP WITH SPICES

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan, melt 12 tablespoons butter without boiling and skim off any foam that rises to the surface. Add the garlic and spices and simmer for three minutes over low heat to allow the spices to develop their flavor.
• Remove the garlic and add the shrimp. Cook for two to three minutes, remove from heat and season to taste with salt and lemon juice.
• Put the shrimp into eight individual pots, saving the shrimp butter. Melt the remaining butter, skimming off any impurities, and pour it, along with the shrimp cooking butter, over the shrimp so that they are completely covered.
• Refrigerate overnight. This will keep three to four weeks refrigerated and can be frozen. Eat with slices of thin toast.

SPICED POTTED SHRIMP

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Let cook, skimming the foam off the top of the butter, until the white milk solids fall to the bottom of the pan. Carefully pour about half the clarified butter into a measuring cup with a spout and set aside. Leave remaining butter and all those milk solids in the skillet.
• Add anchovy, thyme, lemon zest, mace, salt, pepper, cayenne and celery seed to skillet. Stir in shrimp and cook over medium heat until pink, about 3 minutes. Remove pan from heat and stir in garlic.
• Divide shrimp among 8 ramekins, top with the remaining herbed butter from the skillet and chill until set, about 1 hour.
• Pour reserved clarified butter on top and chill until set, about 15 minutes, or up to 5 days (or freeze for up to 1 month). Remove ramekins from the refrigerator at least 20 minutes to 1 hour before serving with lemon wedges, Tabasco and hot toast.

POTTED SHRIMP

Steps:

• 1. Melt all but 2 tablespoons of the butter in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat without boiling, about 4 minutes, and skim off any foam that rises to the surface. Remove from the heat and set aside.
• 2. Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter over medium heat in a medium skillet. Cook the garlic, stirring, until fragrant, 1 minute. Add the shrimp and cook, stirring frequently, until starting to turn pink, about 2 minutes. Pour in the wine and cook, stirring, until the liquid is nearly completely evaporated, about 3 minutes. Pour in the lemon juice and cook 1 minute longer. Stir in the salt and clarified butter and remove from the heat.
• 3. Spoon the shrimp into a small baking dish. Stir in the parsley and pour the melted butter from the skillet over the shrimp just to cover. Reserve any remaining butter in the refrigerator. Chill the shrimp until the butter is solid, 2 hours.
• 4. Pulse the shrimp mixture in a food processor until pureed. Return the mixture to the baking dish. Warm the refrigerated reserved butter in the microwave just until liquefied, about 10 seconds. Pour over the shrimp to cover and refrigerate 3 hours or overnight.
• 5. Remove the dish from the refrigerator 1 hour before serving. Spread on crackers or toasted baguette slices and garnish with additional parsley.

POTTED SHRIMP BY VINCENT PRICE

Steps:

• Melt butter and add spices. Mix with shrimp, making sure shrimp is covered by butter mixture, adding more melted butter if needed. Place in a small bowl or crock and chill at least 2 hours in the refrigerator. Take out of fridge 20 minutes before serving to allow it to soften a little. Will keep several days or longer - potting is a centuries-old method of food preservation. Spread on water crackers, use in omelets, etc.
• This is the traditional potted shrimp. *The mace is traditional, but can be skipped, if desired. Other spices and herbs (choppped parsley is good)can be added, just be sure all is covered with melted butter.