Lobster Balls

Ingredients

• the meat of a lobster
• in the proportion of one-fourth, bread crumbled very fine
• a tablespoonful of cream
• a point of nutmeg
• the juice of half a lemon
• season with a little anchovy sauce
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop the lobster meat finely, add the coral, bread, cream, anchovy sauce, pepper, nutmeg, and lemon juice.

2. 2

   Heat in a stew-pan, remove from fire, stir in the yolk of an egg, cool, roll into balls, brush with egg, dip in breadcrumbs, fry in hot fat, and garnish with fried parsley.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 113. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Balls. A choice " Greenwich " dish. Chop up fine the meat of a lobster, to which add the coral. " Red as a rose " should be the amalgamated mince. Add, in the proportion of one- fourth, bread crumbled very fine, with a tablespoonful of cream, and season with a little anchovy sauce, pepper, a " point " of nutmeg, and the juice of half a lemon

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