Lobster Sauce

Ingredients

• one scant quart of water
• a good-sized boiled lobster
• two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice
• a dash of cayenne

Method

1. 1

   Remove meat from lobster and boil shells in water for twenty minutes.

2. 2

   Strain and use broth to make a cream sauce.

3. 3

   Cut lobster meat into small pieces, powder dried lobster coral, and stir into the sauce.

4. 4

   Add cayenne and lemon juice.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 122. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a good-sized boiled lobster, boil the shells in one scant quart of water for twenty minutes. Strain and use the broth to make a cream sauce. Cut the lob- ster meat in small pieces and powder the dried lobster coral. Stir both into the sauce. Add a dash of cayenne and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. Broiled Lobster Sauce, p. 185. Lobster à la Brooklyn Sauce, p. 186. Devilled Lobster Sauce, p. 141. SALADS^ 8AUCJS8j AND A8PICS 216 Lyonnaise Sauoe Fry four finely chopped onions in two ounces of butter untQ a lìght brown. Add a tablespoonful of white wine vine- gar, and one pint Espagnole saace. Stir and boi! five minutes. Add one pinch black pepper and a little chopped parsley. Madeira Bauoe Put in a saucepan the yolks of six eggs, three oances of granulated sugar, and one-half pint of Madeira wine. Beat the mixture over the fire with an egg-beater until it is thick and frothy. Serve hot. Maitre d'Hotel Bauoe Thicken a couple of ounces of butter with a small tablespoon of flour, stirring it over a gentle fire for ten or fifteen minutes. Then pour to it in small portions half a pint of rich veal broth or gravy, mixing the whole well as it is added and letting it boil up between each portion, for unless this is done the butter is apt to float on the surface. Simmer the sauce for a few minutes, then add salt, a dash of cayenne

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