Lobster Soup

Ingredients

• 1 Lobster, Crayfish, or Tin of Lobster
• 2 quarts Fish Stock
• 1 pint of Milk
• 1 oz. Cornflour
• Lemon Juice, Salt, and Pepper

Method

1. 1

   The fish stock for this soup should be well flavoured with vegetables.

2. 2

   If a crayfish be used, remove all the white meat and boil the shells in the stock for half an hour and strain them out; thicken with the cornflour, pour in the milk, and boil up.

3. 3

   Cut the lobster into small pieces and put into the soup; simmer for ten minutes.

4. 4

   Flavour with lemon juice and salt, pour into a warm tureen, and serve with fried bread.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of living in Australia (1893) by Philip E. Muskett, page 183. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 pint of Milk .... 3 Yolks of Eggs . . . . Zd. 1 oz. Sago \d. 1 Onion \d. Salt and Pepper . . . • ^. Total Cost— 7d. Time— Half an Hour. Boil the sago, stock, and onion together till the sago is clear ; then take out the onion and season the soup with salt and pepper. Beat the yolks of the eggs in a basin, pour over the boiling milk, strain into the stock. Put over the fire and whisk till it comes to boiling point, but do not let it boil, }2^. 284 THE ART OF LIVING IN AUSTRALIA. or it may curdle. Pour into a tureen, sprinkle with chopped parsley, and send some fried bread to table with it. WHITE MACARONI SOUP. Ij oz. Macaroni. . 1^. 1 pint Milk . 2^d 1 oz. Butter . Id. 3 pints Bone Stock ■\ld. Vegetables and Flour Total Cost— 5|<Z. Time -One H The stock made from veal or mutton bones is the best for this soup, as it must be white. Nothing is nicer than the liquor in which a piece of veal has been stewed. If plenty of vegetables have been boiled in it none need be added Avhen the soup is made. If not, boil an onion or leek, a slice of turnip, and a small piece of celery stalk in the stock for twenty minutes, and strain them out. Put the butter into a stewpan, and when it is melted stir in a tablespoonful of cornflour, pour over the milk and stock, and stir until it boils. Boil the macaroni in salt and water for twenty minutes, strain off the water, and cut it into pieces about 1 inch long ; put these into the soup, and sim- mer for ten minutes. Just before serving, flavour with salt, a dust of white pepper, and a few drops of lemon juice. LOBSTER SOUP. 1 Lobster, Crayfish, or Tin of Lobster Is. 2 quarts Fish Stock . . . •lij i pint of Milk J^'^- 1 oz. Cornflour 4i. Lemon Juice, Salt, and Pepper

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