How to Prepare Carolina Corn Shrimp Pie

An old Southern main dish.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• 2 cups of creamed corn
• 2 pounds of shrimp
• crackers
• hot pepper sauce
• ½ cup of shallots
• ¼ cup of unsalted butter
• 3 cups of milk
• sea salt
• freshly-ground pepper
• 1 teaspoon of Worcestershire sauce
• 1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
• 1 bell pepper
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup of celery

1. Peel, de-vein, wash, boil and drain the shrimp in a sieve.
2. Grind the black pepper and mince the shallots and celery. Beat the eggs.
3. Chop the stem off the bell pepper, core the pepper, slice it in half, remove the seeds and inner membrane and chop the pepper roughly.
4. Crumble some of the crackers and use the still-intact crackers to carpet a casserole dish.
5. Stir the eggs, shrimp, corn, shallots, milk, celery and bell pepper. Season with the salt, pepper, Worcestershire sauce, hot pepper sauce and mustard and stir.
6. Spoon all this into the casserole dish. Shake the cracker crumbs over the top, then add little pats of butter.
7. Bake at 350 for 1 hour.