Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery

The most trusted name in the Victorian kitchen, arranged A to Z: over a thousand recipes with the price of every dish worked out to the penny — including what to serve at a ball supper, and how to carve what you serve.

HomeL › Lobster, Devilled

Lobster, Devilled

INGREDIENTS for dish for 4 persons. -1 medium-sized lobster, some salad dressing, finely-grated LOBSTERS, TO DRESS. bread-crumbs, cayenne. AVERAGE COST, 2s. 6d.

Make a saled dressing, using butter in place of oil, season this well with cayenne and add it to the lobster, chopped fine and a small teacupful of bread-crumbs. Clean the shell and put the mixture in, putting bread-crumbs and a small piece of butter on the top; then bake for about 10 minutes till the crumbs are brown.

TIME. About 10 minutes.

SEASONABLE at any time.

Lobsters, To Dress. When the lobster is boiled, rub it over with a little salad oil, which wipe off again; separate the body from the tail, break off the great claws and crack them at the joints, without injuring the meat, split the tail in halves and arrange all neatly in a dish, with the body upright in the middle and garnish with parsley.

← Lobster CreamLobster, Hot →