Potted Lobster

Ingredients

• Procure a large cooked Lobster
• or two small ones
• Jib. of warmed fresh butter
• a little pounded mace
• and cloves
• a little pepper
• salt
• and grated nutmeg

Method

1. 1

   Pick out all the meat from the lobster and pound it with the spawn in a mortar to a paste.

2. 2

   Mix with warmed butter, pounded mace, cloves, pepper, salt, and nutmeg.

3. 3

   Fill jars with the mixture, press down tightly, leaving space at the top, and fill with clarified butter.

4. 4

   Tie jars with white paper and store in a dry place until needed.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopaedia of practical cookery (1892) by Theodore Francis Garrett, William A. Rawson, page 388. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potted Lobster. — (1) Procure a large cooked Lobster, or two small ones, pick out all the meat, and put it with the spawn in a mortar ; pound to a paste, then mix with it Jib. of warmed fresh butter, a little pounded mace and cloves, and a little pepper, salt, and grated nutmeg

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