plenty of stale bread crumbs and a quantity of bits of butter. Repeat
the layers until the dish is full. Put plenty of butter on top and
pour in a cup of the water from the clams. Bake in a moderate oven one
hour, and when half done pour in a tumbler of sherry.

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Shrimp or Oyster Curry

Melt four ounces of butter and fry in it four young onions and a clove
of garlic chopped. Add the juice of two limes. Stir into this one
teaspoonful of corn starch, two tablespoonfuls of curry powder and
half a cup of cream with salt, pepper and cayenne. Stir this rapidly
over the fire until very thick. Thin with milk until it is the proper
consistency, then add a large cup of picked shrimps, and as many
oysters. Cook two minutes after it boils.

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Shrimps a la Bordelaise

Place two tablespoonfuls of butter and one of flour in a saucepan
and brown over the fire. Stir into this one cup of stock, and add
two tablespoonfuls of finely chopped raw ham, a slice of onion, one
tablespoonful of chopped parsley. Simmer for ten or fifteen minutes.
Strain the same and add to it a cup of shrimps. Simmer again for a
few moments and add a teaspoonful of tomato or mushroom catsup. Season
with, salt and pepper, and serve in timbale cases.

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