Lobster Nests

Ingredients

• six ounces of flour
• six ounces of butter
• some lobster
• some good white sauce
• five or six lobster eggs

Method

1. 1

   Make puff paste, line nest molds, fill with rice, bake until golden.

2. 2

   Remove rice, brush with egg, sprinkle with parsley.

3. 3

   Pound lobster with butter, shape into eggs, fill nests with sauce and lobster eggs, serve hot.

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 Nests; Nids d'homard {Mrs. M7Zer).— Make some puff paste with six ounces of flour and six ounces of butter ; line some nest moulds with this, filling them with rice and baking them a light golden colour. When cooked remove the rice, brush the tops of the nests over with white of egg, and sprinkle with chopped parsley. Pound some lobster in a mortar with a little butter, pepper, salt, and lobster coral ; and shape this mixture into little eggs. Chop up fine a little more lobster, and stir over the fire in some good white sauce

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