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Lobster, Hot

INGREDIENTS for dish for 4 or 5 persons.-1 lobster, 2 oz. of butter, grated nutmeg; salt, pepper and pounded mace to taste: bread-crumbs, 2 eggs.

AVERAGE COST, 2s. 6d.

Pound the meat of the lobster to a smooth paste with the butter and seasoning and add a few bread-crumbs. Beat the eggs and make the whole mixture into the form of a lobster; pound the spawn and sprinkle over it. Bake 1/4 hour and just before serving, lay over it the tail and body shell, with the small claws underneath to resemble a lobster.

TIME. hour.

SEASONABLE at any time.

LOBSTER SALAD.

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