To make a fine Dish of Lobsters

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
Yield
1.0 dish
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
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Ingredients (3)
Lobsters for the dish
Butter for the lobsters
Chines for garnish
Instructions (6)
  1. Boil the large lobster as above, and froth it before the fire.
  2. Take the other two boiled, and butter them as in the foregoing receipt.
  3. Take the two body-shells, heat them hot, and fill them with the buttered meat.
  4. Lay the large lobster in the middle, and the two shells on each side.
  5. Arrange the two great claws of the middle lobster at each end.
  6. Place the four pieces of chines of the two lobsters broiled, and laid on each end.
Original Text
To make a fine Dish of Lobsters. TAKE three lobsters, boil the large as above, and froth it before the fire. Take the other two boiled, and butter them as in the foregoing receipt. Take the two body-shells, heat them hot, and fill made PLAIN and EASY. fill them with the buttered meat. Lay the large lobster in the mid- dle, and the two shells on each side; and the two great claws of the middle lobster at each end; and the four pieces of chines of the two lobsters broiled, and laid on each end. This, if nicely done, makes a pretty dish.
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