Lobster Pie

Ingredients

• two large or three small lobsters
• butter
• vinegar
• pepper
• salt
• pounded mace
• flour
• paste
• crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Boil lobsters, remove tails, cut and prepare meat.

2. 2

   Stew shells with water, vinegar, and seasonings.

3. 3

   Strain into dish, cover with paste, and bake slowly.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The thorough good cook (1895) by George Augustus Sala, page 112. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Pie. Boil two large or three small lobsters, remove the tails, cut the fish in two, take out the gut, divide each into four pieces, and lay them in a small dish ; then put in the meat of the claws, and that Avhich has been picked from the bod}^ Clear the latter of the furry parts, and take out the substance ; beat the spawn in a mortar, do the same by the shells ; set these on to stew with some Avater, two or three spoonfuls of vinegar, pepper, salt, and pounded mace, and add a piece of butter rolled in flour ; when the goodness of the shells is extracted give the Avhole a good boiling, and strain it into the dish, strew some crumbs over it, and cover it with a paste

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