Lobster with Olives a la Maximilian

Ingredients

• Twelve slices of bread
• four tablespoons of butter
• a small lobster
• eight olives
• a teaspoon of anchovy paste
• four to five pickled green gherkins
• one half teaspoon of mustard
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Butter the twelve slices of bread and cut them out with a medium patty cutter.

2. 2

   Chop one gherkin, two olives, and the smallest piece of the lobster, leaving the best part of the lobster for decoration.

3. 3

   Add the anchovy paste, mustard, pepper and salt to taste, and mix it with the butter that has been stirred to a cream.

4. 4

   Spread this mixture on six of the slices, the other slices of bread put on the top with the butter up.

5. 5

   In the center of each put one of the olives that has been stuffed with the mixture and arrange all around the lobster meat from the tails and the claws that have been cut in heavy strips, Julienne style, about an inch in length and in between each put gherkin that is cut the same way.

6. 6

   The rest of the stirred butter put in a paper bag that holds a fine tube and circle it all around the lobster and gherkins forming a net.

7. 7

   The rest of the butter color a heavy orange shade with the butter coloring and decorate the olives with this butter.

8. 8

   Leave in the ice-box until ready to serve; arrange in the form of a ring on a platter.

9. 9

   Put in between each sandwich one of the small lobster claws and in the center put the head shell of the lobster with the addition of the tail and with sprigs of parsley in the head.

10. 10

    Serve before the soup.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book... (1924) by Maria Matilda Ericsson Hammond, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Lobster with Olives a la Maximilian Homard aux Olives a la Maximilian For Six Persons Twelve slices of bread, four tablespoons of butter, a small lobster, eight olives, a teaspoon of anchovy paste, four to five pickled green gherkins, one half teaspoon of mustard, pepper and salt

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