Recipe - Killer Shrimp

2 tablespoon Fresh or dried rosemary
2 teaspoon Thyme
1 teaspoon Black pepper
2 Cloves garlic, peeled and
chopped
One half teaspoon Fennel seed
1 teaspoon Celery seed
1 teaspoon Crushed red pepper
2 qt Clam broth (if making with
chicken use chicken broth)
3 ounce Tomato paste
1 Stick butter
Shrimp
French bread

Using a mortar and pestle, partially grind the rosemary, thyme, and fennel
seed. Break the spices up rather than grinding them. In the end there
should still be recognizable pieces of the rosemary, etc. Mix the
ingredients in a pot. Simmer for an hour or two. Just before serving, add
raw shrimp. Simmer until shrimp is done, stirring, about 2 minutes. Serve
in bowls. Each bowl should contain a serving of shrimp and a lot of broth.
The broth should almost completely cover the shrimp. Use unpeeled shrimp.
The dish is eaten with your fingers. Dig out a piece of shrimp and peel it.
Eat it. Soak up the broth with the bread and eat that. No utensils. This
recipe makes a lot of broth. If you have the time, peel the shrimp down to
the last joint, leaving that and the tail intact. Add the shells to the
clam broth and bring to a boil, then cover and simmer at least One half hour.
Pour into blender in batches and process till smooth. Strain back into pot.
Add herbs and remaining ingredients and proceed with the recipe.

Recipe by: Mimi Hiller Posted to MCRecipe Digest V1 #584 by Sheri McRae
sherae@zeta.org.au on Apr 22, 1997