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Lobster Baskets

From The housewife's referee, 1898

Serves 1

Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Baskets ; Corbeilles d'homard. — Take some hard- boiled eggs and cut them into halves longways ; take out the yolks and pound them in a mortar with the flesh of a hen lobster ; when well mixed fill the eggs with the mix- ture. Take some of the feelers and put them across to look like a basket handle. Garnish with small salad and aspic

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