Gateau de Lobster

Ingredients

• ^ lb. lobster
• ^ lb. bread crumbs
• 2 tea^oonfuls salt
• 1 oz. butter
• 1 oz. brown bread crumbs
• ^ pint milk or cream
• I teaspoonful pepper
• A little cayenne
• Yolks of 3 eggs

Method

1. 1

   Boil the milk and pour over the bread crumbs, add the salt, butter, pepper, cayenne, and the yolks of the eggs.

2. 2

   Put this with the lobster into a mortar, and pound and mix thoroughly.

3. 3

   Butter thoroughly a plain or fancy mould, and throw into it the brown crumbs, shake the mould and see that it is quite covered with the crumbs, pour in the mixture; bake half-an-hour or until firm.

4. 4

   Turn out and garnish with green parsley.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Domestic cookery (1886) by H. M. Young, page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

GATEAU DE LOBSTER. ^ lb. lobster ^ lb. bread crumbs 2 tea^oonfuls salt 1 oz. butter 1 oz. brown bread crumbs ^ pint milk or cream I teaspoonful pepper 'A little cayenne Yolks of 3 eggs

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