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Lobster Sauce

INGREDIENTS for 1 tureen. -1 small crab; salt, pounded mace and cayenne to taste 1/2 pint of melted butter made with milk. AVERAGE COST, 1s.

Choose a nice fresh crab, pick all the meat away from the shell, and cut it into small square pieces. Make 1/2 pint of melted butter, put in the fish and seasoning; let it gradually warm through, and simmer for 2 minutes; it should not boil.

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