Potted shrimps

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Potted shrimps

포티드 슈림프

Traditional Lancashire dish of brown shrimp in nutmeg-flavoured butter, which has set in a small pot, the butter acting as a preservative; traditionally eaten with bread.

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Potted shrimps is a traditional English dish made with brown shrimp flavored with nutmeg and baked in butter. The butter acts as a preservative, and cayenne pepper may also be used. Regarded as a delicacy, it is traditionally eaten with bread. Potted shrimps was a favourite dish of Ian Fleming, who passed on his predilection to his fictional creation James Bond. Fleming reputedly used to eat the dish at Scott's Restaurant on Mount Street in London.

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