Lobster or Crab Sauce

Ingredients

• 1 lobster or 1 crab
• 2 oz. butter
• 1 oz. flour
• 0.5 pint milk
• 1 table-spoonful cream
• 0.5 lemon
• Cayenne pepper
• Salt

Method

1. 1

   Pick out the meat from the boiled lobster or crab, chop it, and put it into a sauce of butter, flour, and milk made as directed.

2. 2

   Season with Cayenne pepper, salt, and lemon juice.

3. 3

   If using raw lobster, remove spawn before boiling and pound with butter to add to the sauce after boiling.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

LOBSTER OR CRAB SAUCE. 1 lobster or 1 crab, 2 oz. butter, i oz. flour. £ pint milk. 1 table-spoonful cream. £ lemon. Cayenne pepper and salt. Pick out the meat from the boiled lobster or crab ; chop it, and put it into a sauce of the butter, flour, and milk, made as before directed. Season with Cayenne pepper, salt, and lemon-juice. If the lobster be procured raw, with spawn on the outside, this should be taken off previous to boiling, pounded with a little butter, and added to the sauce after the lobster. When it has boiled for a few minutes, the sauce will become a bright red. This is an improvement on common lobster sauce. Add the cream just before serving. HOLLAND AISE SAUCE. 2 yolks of eggs. 1 gill cream. Salt. 1 oz. butter. 1 lemon (juice only). Cayenne pepper. Put all into a small saucepan or a jar placed in another saucepan of boiling water, and whisk the eggs, &c., until a thick sauce is formed. Pcmovo it immediately from the fire ; turn into a hot sauce tureen and servo quickly. E 6G OYSTER — BREAD — APPLE — MINT SAUCE. OYSTER SAUCE. 24 oysters. 2 oz. butter. 1 oz. flour

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