Lobster Salad

Ingredients

• two freshly-boiled Lobsters
• a good mayonnaise salad-dressing
• some lettuces
• some white heart of celery
• a border of hard-boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   Pick the flesh from the Lobsters and chop finely.

2. 2

   Mix with mayonnaise.

3. 3

   Prepare a salad with shredded lettuces and arrange on a dish.

4. 4

   Garnish with cucumber, aspic jelly, and Lobster shells.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 377. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Salad. — (1) Pick the flesh out of two freshly-boiled Lobsters, keeping the shells (which should be nicely washed, and reserved for further use) as whole as possible. Chop the flesh finely, and mix it with a good mayonnaise salad- dressing. Wash and cut some lettuces into thin shreds, p>ile them in the centre on an oval-shaped salad-dish, arrange round it a border of endive, and pour the mayon- naise mixture in the centre. Cut some white heart of celery into pieces of various sizes, and arrange in fan- For details respecting Culinary Processes. Utensils, Sauces, d-e., referred to, see under their special heads. 876 THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF PRACTICAL COOKERY. Lobster — continued. shaped groups against the endive. Garnish round all with crohtons of aspic jelly. Place the shells of the Lobsters on the top, lengthwise, head to head, put across their Fig. 1095. Lobster Salad. hacks some rounds of cucumber overlapping each other, (see Fig. 1095) and serve. (2) Wash and thoroughly dry some endive and two large lettuces ; cut them finely with a silver knife, or else pull them in pieces with the fingers ; put them in a howl, with the pickings from the body of one hen Lobster, a little of the meat from the claws cut into small pieces, and some salad-dressing. Pass the coral of the Lobster and the yolks of three hard-boiled eggs through a sieve, and sprinkle them over the salad, arranging tastefully over it some sliced cucumber, beetroot, and radishes. Put a border of hard-boiled eggs

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