Lobster Pie

Ingredients

• a couple of large, fine lobsters
• a small roll
• half a pound of butter
• a little nutmeg
• pepper
• salt
• a little vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Boil the lobsters, cover a dish with a good crust, break up the lobsters, and lay the pieces in the dish.

2. 2

   Mix the flesh with grated nutmeg, season with pepper, salt, and vinegar, and mix with bread-crumbs and melted butter.

3. 3

   Lay this mixture on the tails and cover.

4. 4

   Bake for half an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Virginia Cookery-book (1884) by Mary Stuart Smith, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Pie. Boil a couple of large, fine lobsters, and while they are boiling cover a dish with a good crust. When the lob- sters are done enough break them up. Separate the tail, split it ; take out the inside ; then cut each into four pieces. Lay these regularly in a dish. Break the claws and pick out the flesh; open the body and pick everything clean out of that; chop, break, and mix all this together well; grate in a little nutmeg. Season it with pepper and salt and a little vinegar ; rub the crumb of a small roll to powder and mix with this ; melt half a pound of butter

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