Lobster Pie with Oysters

Ingredients

• meat from two large boiled Lobsters
• puff paste
• breadcrumbs
• small pieces of butter
• pepper
• salt
• 1 pint of water
• oyster liquor

Method

1. 1

   Line a pie-dish with puff paste, layer with Lobster and oysters, sprinkling breadcrumbs.

2. 2

   Mix pounded Lobster spawn with butter and breadcrumbs, fry, and add to the pie.

3. 3

   Pour in thickened broth from boiled shells, cover, glaze, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 375. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Pie with Oysters. — Pick out the meat from two large boiled Lobsters, and cut it into moderate-sized pieces. Line the edge of a buttered pie-dish with putt' paste, then put in, first a layer of Lobster, and then a layer of oysters, sprinkling breadcrumbs in at the same time ; continue in this way till the dish is full, putting here and there small jiieces of butter, and a little pepper and salt. Put the spawn of the Lobster in a mortar, pound finely, and mix with it a little butter and some breadcrumbs ; shape into small balls, fry in boiling butter, then put them in the pie. In the meantime the shells of the Lobsters should have been boiled in 1 pint of water together with a little pepper and salt ; strain, add the oyster liquor to it, thicken a little, and pour into the pie. Cover with a flat of puff paste

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