Potted shrimps
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Potted shrimps are a traditional Lancastrian
dish made with brown shrimp flavoured with mace
. The dish consists of brown shrimp in mace-flavoured butter, which has set in a small pot. Cayenne pepper
and nutmeg
may also be included. It is traditionally eaten with bread. The butter acts as a preservative
.
Potted shrimp was a favourite dish of Ian Fleming
who passed on his predeliction for the delicacy to his famous fictional creation James Bond
. Fleming reputedly used to eat the dish at Scotts Restaurant on Mount Street in London
where it is still served to this day.
Lancaster, Lancashire
Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,952. Lancaster is a constituent settlement of the wider City of Lancaster, local government district which has a population of 133,914 and encompasses several outlying towns, including...
dish made with brown shrimp flavoured with mace
Nutmeg
The nutmeg tree is any of several species of trees in genus Myristica. The most important commercial species is Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of Indonesia...
. The dish consists of brown shrimp in mace-flavoured butter, which has set in a small pot. Cayenne pepper
Cayenne pepper
The cayenne pepper—also known as the Guinea spice,cow-horn pepper, aleva, bird pepper,or, especially in its powdered form, red pepper—is a red, hot chili pepper used to flavor dishes and for medicinal purposes. Named for the city of Cayenne in French Guiana, it is a cultivar of Capsicum annuum...
and nutmeg
Nutmeg
The nutmeg tree is any of several species of trees in genus Myristica. The most important commercial species is Myristica fragrans, an evergreen tree indigenous to the Banda Islands in the Moluccas of Indonesia...
may also be included. It is traditionally eaten with bread. The butter acts as a preservative
Preservative
A preservative is a naturally occurring or synthetically produced substance that is added to products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, paints, biological samples, wood, etc. to prevent decomposition by microbial growth or by undesirable chemical changes....
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Potted shrimp was a favourite dish of Ian Fleming
Ian Fleming
Ian Lancaster Fleming was a British author, journalist and Naval Intelligence Officer.Fleming is best known for creating the fictional British spy James Bond and for a series of twelve novels and nine short stories about the character, one of the biggest-selling series of fictional books of...
who passed on his predeliction for the delicacy to his famous fictional creation James Bond
James Bond
James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...
. Fleming reputedly used to eat the dish at Scotts Restaurant on Mount Street in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
where it is still served to this day.