Salad of Lobster

The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined · Mollard, John · 1802

Source: The Art of Cookery Made Easy and Refined
Status: success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (9)

Lobster

boiled hen lobsters ↝ Lobster [Shellfish]

Garnish

parsley chopped fine ↝ Parsley, raw [Not included in a food category]
the spawn from the inside chopped

Dressing

oil ↝ Oil, safflower [Fats and Oils]
vinegar ↝ Vinegar [Mustard and other condiments]
mustard ↝ Mustard greens, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
cayenne pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, red or cayenne [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]

Garnish

slices of lemon ↝ Lemon, raw [Citrus fruits]

Instructions (6)

Take boiled hen lobsters, break the shells, and preserve the meat as white as possible.
Cut the tails into halves, put them into the center of a dish with the red side upwards, and the meat of the claws whole.
Place round the lobster a row of parsley chopped fine, and a row of the spawn from the inside chopped.
Mix a little of each (parsley and spawn) and strew over the top of the lobster.
Put slices of lemon round the rim of the dish.
Send in a sauce boat a mixture of oil, vinegar, mustard, cayenne pepper, and salt, a little of each.

Original Text

Salad of Lobster.

Take boiled hen lobsters, break the shells, and preserve the meat as white as possible. Then cut the tails into halves, put them into the center of a dish with the red side upwards, and the meat of the claws whole. Then place round the lobster a row of parsley chopped fine, and a row of the spawn from the inside chopped, and afterwards mix a little of each and strew over the top of the lobster. Then put slices of lemon round the rim of the[185] dish, and send in a sauce boat a mixture of oil, vinegar, mustard, cayenne pepper, and salt, a little of each.

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