Lobster Patties

The Book of Household Management · Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary) · 1861
Source
The Book of Household Management
Time
Cook: 6 min Total: 6 min
Status
success · extracted 13 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (8)
For the patties
For lining the patty-pans
Instructions (2)
  1. Line the patty-pans with puff-paste, and put into each a small piece of bread: cover with paste, brush over with egg, and bake of a light colour.
  2. Take as much lobster as is required, mince the meat very fine, and add the above ingredients; stir it over the fire for 6 minutes; remove the lids of the patty-cases, take out the bread, fill with the mixture, and replace the covers.
Original Text
LOBSTER PATTIES (an Entree). 277. INGREDIENTS.—Minced lobster, 4 tablespoonfuls of béchamel, 6 drops of anchovy sauce, lemon-juice, cayenne to taste. Mode.—Line the patty-pans with puff-paste, and put into each a small piece of bread: cover with paste, brush over with egg, and bake of a light colour. Take as much lobster as is required, mince the meat very fine, and add the above ingredients; stir it over the fire for 6 minutes; remove the lids of the patty-cases, take out the bread, fill with the mixture, and replace the covers. Seasonable at any time. LOCAL ATTACHMENT OF THE LOBSTER.—It is said that the attachment of this animal is strong to some particular parts of the sea, a circumstance celebrated in the following lines:—       "Nought like their home the constant lobsters prize,       And foreign shores and seas unknown despise.       Though cruel hands the banish'd wretch expel,       And force the captive from his native cell,       He will, if freed, return with anxious care,       Find the known rock, and to his home repair;       No novel customs learns in different seas,       But wonted food and home-taught manners please."
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