Lobster Salad

Ingredients

• a cooked lobster
• a large head of lettuce
• Mayonnaise
• Bavarian
• Eggless Cream Dressing
• celery
• a few olives
• Capers
• sliced cucumbers
• sliced yolks and whites of hard-boiled eggs
• sliced beets

Method

1. 1

   Crack the claws of a cooked lobster, disjoint, twist off the head, and split the body in two.

2. 2

   Pick out meat in bits, saving coral.

3. 3

   Tear lettuce into pieces and place on a dish.

4. 4

   Lay lobster on top, pour over Mayonnaise, and garnish with coral.

5. 5

   Arrange lobster meat, celery, and lettuce in layers, finishing with meat and pouring remaining dressing over.

6. 6

   Garnish with sliced cucumbers, hard-boiled eggs, and other garnishes.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 494. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Salad. — Crack the claws of a cooked lobster (see Shell- fish) after first disjointing, twist ofl'head, split body in two length- wise, pick out meat in bits not too fine, saving coral separate ; tear a large head of lettuce into pieces about two inches square, and place on dish, over which lay the lobster, putting the coral aroun^ the outside and pour over it a Mayonnaise, Bavarian or Eggless. Cream Dressing. Some reserve the green fat, work it into a smooth paste, mix this well with yolk of a raw egg and add the mixture to the Mayonnaise. When celery is used the lobster meat, moistened with a little of the Mayonnaise, and celery may be arranged in three layers with lettuce leaves at bottom, then meat, then celery and fin- ish with the meat, pouring remainder of Mayonnaise over as above. A few olives may be added if liked. Some reserve pieces of the lobster meat to oe used in garnishing, and having arranged the salad on a dish, place first, a row of sliced cucumbers, then the pieces of lobster, sliced yolks and whites of hard-boiled eggs, the coral saved from lobster and sliced beets placed alternately, or arranged in small separate bunches, so that the colors contrast nicely. Capers

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