Lobster Croquettes

Ingredients

• To the meat of a well-boiled lobster
• pepper
• salt
• powdered mace
• one quarter as much bread crumbs
• 2 tablespoonfuls of butter
• egg
• biscuit
• parsley

Method

1. 1

   To the meat of a well-boiled lobster, chopped fine, add pepper, salt, and powdered mace.

2. 2

   Mix with this one quarter as much bread crumbs, well rubbed, as you have meat; make into pointed balls, with 2 tablespoonfuls of butter melted; roll these in beaten egg, then in biscuit powdered fine, and fry in butter or very nice sweet lard.

3. 3

   Serve dry and hot, and garnish with crisped parsley.

4. 4

   This is a delicious supper dish or entree.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 17. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Croquettes — Lobster, pepper, salt, powdered mace, bread crumbs, 2 tablespoonfuls of butter, egg, biscuit, parsley. To the meat of a well-boiled lobster, chopped fine, add pepper, salt, and powdered mace. Mix with this one quarter as much bread crumbs

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