Curried Lobster

Ingredients

• the meat out of two small Lobsters
• 1 teacupful of veal gravy
• 1 teacupful of cream
• half a blade of mace
• 2 teaspoonfuls of curry powder
• 1 teaspoonful of flour
• 1 oz. of butter
• the strained juice of half a lemon
• a little salt

Method

1. 1

   Simmer Lobster meat with gravy, cream, mace, curry powder, flour, and butter for one hour.

2. 2

   Add lemon juice and salt, serve hot.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 2 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 358. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

loz. of butter in a mortar with some of the Lobster spawn, and pound until quite smooth, then rub it through a fine hair sieve ; put another ounce of butter in a stewpan with £ table-spoonful of flour, mix them over the fire, stir in about 1 teacupful of white stock, and add the pieces of Lobster. Continue stirring over the fire until very hot, then mix in the pounded spawn, the strained juice of a small lemon, and 4 table-spoonful of finely- minced parsley, and move the saucepan to the edge of the j fire, where the contents will keep hot without boiling. Cut some slices 2in. thick off a stale loaf, and with a round tin cutter 2in. in diameter cut them into rounds without any crust ; with a paste-cutter a size smaller cut a circle half-way through the centre of each round. Put a large lump of lard in a flat stewpan, and, when it boils, put in the rounds of bread and fry them a golden brown ; drain when done, and scoop out a hollow within the marked circle. Pill the croustades with the above mixture, put j them on a hot dish, over which has been spread a folded I napkin or an ornamental dish-paper, garnish with fried parsley and quarters of lemon, and serve. Curried Lobster. — (1) Put the meat out of two small | Lobsters into a saucepan with 1 teacupful each of veal gravy and cream and half a blade of mace ; mix 2 tea- spoonfuls of curry powder with 1 teaspoonful of flour and loz. of butter, put it in with the Lobster, and simmer at the side of the fire for one hour ; then add the strained juice of half a lemon and a little salt

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