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BISQUE DE HOMARD (Lobster Soup)

Bisques are highly flavoured soups prepared from lobster, prawns, shrimps, crabs, or crayfish. The most favoured is bisque de homard, prepared as follows:--Pound the shell of a lobster (well cleaned) with a quarter of a pound of butter until quite fine. Put this in a stewpan to dissolve, with a quart of fish stock, a carrot, a turnip, an onion, and a bunch of herbs. Boil for half an hour and take out the vegetables. Pound the meat, add it to the stock, and cook for a few minutes, then rub all through a sieve. Pass it through again, adding a little cream. Serve very hot. Price, according to size of lobster and season of year.