Buttered Lobster

Ingredients

• all the meat of a lobster
• a quarter of a pound of fresh butter
• two tablespoonfuls of vinegar
• one saltspoonful of cayenne
• one saltspoonful of made mustard
• some quarters of lettuce
• some quarters of hard boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   Mince lobster meat, mix with coral, butter, vinegar, cayenne, and mustard.

2. 2

   Heat until hot.

3. 3

   Arrange lettuce on a dish, pour hot lobster over, and top with hard boiled eggs.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 42. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Buttered Lobster. Pick out all the meat of a lobster and mince it finely, mix it with the coral and green inside, two tablespoonfuls of vinegar, a quarter of a pound of fresh butter and one saltspoonful each of cayenne and made mustard; place this in a stewpan with the chopped meat over the fire till thoroughly hot. Cut in quarters some lettuce, arrange them on a dish, pour in the hot lobster, put some quarters of hard boiled eggs

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