Curried Lobster

Ingredients

• One large lobster
• one half pint second stock
• one dessert-spoonful curry powder
• one small onion
• one salt-spoonful salt
• one salt-spoonful pepper
• one teaspoonful lemon-juice
• one dessert-spoonful cream or milk
• one half ounce butter

Method

1. 1

   Remove all the meat from the lobster, cut it in small pieces.

2. 2

   Melt the butter in a small saucepan, add the soaked and chopped onion, and cook until pale brown.

3. 3

   Stir in the curry powder, pepper, and salt.

4. 4

   Gradually add the stock while stirring.

5. 5

   When it boils, add the lobster pieces and cook slowly for 30-45 minutes.

6. 6

   Before serving, stir in the cream or milk and lemon juice without boiling again.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 27. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Curried Lobster.— One large lobster, one half pint second stock, one dessert-spoonful curry powder, one small onion, EEL PIE. 31 one salt-spoonful salt, one salt-spoonful pepper, one tea- spoonful lemon-juice, one dessert-spoonful cream or milk, one half ounce butter

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