Lobster Salad (Superior)

Ingredients

• a good stiff mayonnaise sauce
• the white leaves of a lettuce
• some pieces of lobster
• a thin slice of a small radish
• some little rounds of beetroot
• quarters of hard-boiled eggs

Method

1. 1

   Layer lettuce, mayonnaise, lobster, and more lettuce in a dish.

2. 2

   Decorate with cucumber, radish, beetroot, and hard-boiled eggs.

3. 3

   Add lobster coral and a spray of endive in the center.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from À la mode cookery (1902) by Harriet Anne de Salis, page 68. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster Salad (Superior) Make a good stiff mayonnaise sauce, lay the white leaves of a lettuce at the bottom of the dish, cover with mayonnaise, then lay on some pieces of lobster neatly cut, then some more lettuce finely shred and more sauce, then another layer of lobster, and cover thickly with mayonnaise ; decorate round with a row of cucumber cut thin, and on each piece of cucumber place a thin slice of a small radish. Place another row beyond the cucumber of little rounds of beetroot alternately with quarters of hard-boiled eggs

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.