Lobster Patties

Ingredients

• a lobster
• an ounce of butter
• a tablespoonful of cream
• the same of white stock
• a teaspoonful of essence of anchovies
• a few dry breadcrumbs

Method

1. 1

   Boil the lobster for fifteen minutes, crack it open, and pick the meat into flakes.

2. 2

   Put into a saucepan with butter, cream, stock, essence of anchovies, seasoning, and breadcrumbs.

3. 3

   Boil briefly.

4. 4

   Line patty-pans with puff paste, fill with the mixture, and bake until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A handbook of fish cookery (1897) by Lucy H. Yates, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Patties. — Boil a lobster for fifteen minutes. Crack it open and pick • the meat out into flakes. Put the flakes into an enamelled saucepan with an ounce of butter, a tablespoonful of cream, same of white stock, and a teaspoonful of essence of anchovies, a little seasoning also, and a few dry breadcrumbs

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