Potted shrimps
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Potted shrimps are a traditional Lancastrian dish, made with brown shrimp flavored with mace .
The dish "Potted shrimps" consists of brown shrimp in mace-flavored butter which has set in a small pot[1]. It is traditionally eaten with bread. The mace-flavored butter acts as a preservative.
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- "The Book of Household Management" by Mrs Isabella Beeton