Stewed or Curried Lobster

Ingredients

• one tablespoonful of butter
• a heaping tablespoonful of flour
• one large cup of either stock or milk
• a saltspoonful of mace
• a pinch of cayenne pepper
• half a teaspoonful of salt
• one teaspoonful of curry-powder

Method

1. 1

   Cut lobster meat into small bits and add green fat and coral.

2. 2

   Melt butter and flour in a saucepan, stirring smoothly.

3. 3

   Add stock or milk, mace, cayenne pepper, and salt.

4. 4

   Put in lobster and cook for ten minutes.

5. 5

   For curry, add curry powder.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The easiest way in housekeeping and cooking (1881) by Helen Stuart Campbell, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Stewed or Curried Lobster. Cut the meat into small bits, and add the gi-een fat, and the coral which is found only in the hen-lobster. Melt in a saucepan one tablespoonful of butter and a heaping tablespoonful of flour. Stir smoothly together, adding slowly one large cup of either stock or milk, a saltspoonful of mace, a pinch of cayenne pepper, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Put in the lobster, and cook for ten minutes. For curry, simply add one teaspoonful of curry-powder

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