Creamed Lobster in Fontage Cups

Ingredients

• 2 cups lobster meat
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 1 tablespoon grated onion
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1/2 cup cream
• 1 egg yolk
• salt
• cayenne

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter; add onion, flour, stock and lemon juice; cook five minutes; season with salt and pepper; add cream, in which yolk of egg has been beaten, and lobster meat.

2. 2

   When hot, serve in fontage cups.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Lowney's cook book (1907) by Maria Willett Howard, page 51. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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