Buttered Lobster

Ingredients

• all the meat of a lobster
• 2 table-spoonfuls of vinegar
• Jib. of fresh butter
• 1 saltspoonful of cayenne
• 1 saltspoonful of made mustard
• three lettuces
• quarters of hard-boiled egg

Method

1. 1

   Mince the lobster meat finely, mix with coral and green inside, vinegar, butter, cayenne, and mustard.

2. 2

   Heat in a stewpan until hot.

3. 3

   Cut lettuce in quarters, arrange on a dish, pour in hot lobster, and top with hard-boiled egg.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 357. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buttered Lobster. — Pick out all the meat of a Lobster, and mince it finely ; mix with the coral and green inside, leav- ing out the uneatable parts, 2 table-spoonfuls of vinegar, Jib. of fresh butter, and 1 saltspoonful each of cayenne and made mustard ; put it in a stewpan with the chojiped meat, and stir over the fire till thoroughly hot through. Wash and cut in quarters three lettuces, arrange them round a dish, pour in the hot Lobster, put some quarters of hard-boiled egg

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.