Curried Lobster

Ingredients

• two red lobsters
• a thin slice of tasty ham
• a little Cayenne pepper
• a teaspoonful of salt
• half a cupful of white soup
• half a cupful of cream
• a dessert-spoonful of curry
• another of flour
• well-boiled rice

Method

1. 1

   Pick out the meat of two red lobsters from the shells into a shallow saucepan, with a thin slice of tasty ham, a little Cayenne pepper, and a teaspoonful of salt.

2. 2

   Mix half a cupful of white soup and half a cupful of cream and pour over the meat.

3. 3

   Put it on the fire and let it simmer for about an hour, then add a dessert-spoonful of curry and another of flour rubbed smooth in a little of the liquor taken out of the pot.

4. 4

   In three minutes the curry will be ready to dish.

5. 5

   Serve with a rim of well-boiled rice around the dish.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mother's Cook Book: Containing Recipes for Every Day in the Week, Including .. (1902) by Marion Harland, page 21. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CURRIED LOBSTER. Pick out the meat of two red lobsters from the shells into a shallow sauce-pan, in the bottom of which has been placed a thin slice of tasty ham, with a little Cayenne pepper and a teaspoonfnl of salt. Mix up half a cupful of white soup and half a cupful of cream and pour over the meat Pub it on the fire and let it simmer for about an hoar, when you will add a dessert-spoonful of curry, and an-; other of flour rubbed smooth in a little of the liquor taken out of the pot; in three minutes the curry will be ready to dish. Some add a dash of lemon to this carry (I don't), and the cream can be dispensed with if necessary. Put a rim of well-boiled rice

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