Lobster Mayonnaise
INGREDI--INGREDIENTS for dish for 4 persons.-1 ENTS for dish for 6 persons.-1 large or 2 smc!! lobsters, 1 pint of aspic jelly, 3 hardboiled eggs, a large lettuce, a few tarragon leaves, capers, truffles (if procurable), stoned olives, pepper and salt, mayonnaise sauce.
AVERAGE COST, 3s. 6d.
Put enough melted jelly into a quart border mould as will thinly coat it; and when it begins to set, arrange in it the flesh of the body and claws of the lobster, cut into neat pieces, the tarragon leaves, tiny pieces of the truffle and a few capers; then fill up the mould with jelly. When firmly set, turn out of the mould and fill the centre with the lettuce cut up with the remainder of the lobster. Put a little salad round the mould and mask both that and what is in the centre with a good mayonnaise sauce. Garnish with the truffles sliced, the eggs and the small claws of the lobster.
SEASONABLE at any time. lobster, 4 tablespoonfuls of white stock, 2 tablespoonfuls of cream, pounded mace and cayenne to taste; bread-crumbs. AVERAGE CosT, 2s. 6d.
Pick the meat from the shell and cut it up into small square pieces; put the stock, cream and seasoning into a stewpan, add the lobster and let it simmer gently for 6 minutes. Serve it in the shell, which must be nicely cleaned and have a border of puffpaste; cover it with bread-crumbs, place small pieces of butter over and brown before the fire, or with a salamander.
TIME.- hour.
SEASONABLE at any time.