LOBSTER SAUCE

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (6)

half a pint of water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
a little mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
whole pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
three quarters of a pound of butter ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
your lobster ↝ Lobster [Shellfish]
anchovy

Instructions (5)

Boil half a pint of water with a little mace and whole pepper, long enough to take out the strong taste of the spice, then strain it off.
Melt three quarters of a pound of butter smooth in the water.
Cut your lobster in very small pieces.
Stew it all together tenderly with anchovy.
Serve it up hot.

Original Text

To make LOBSTER SAUCE.
BOIL half a pint of water with a little mace
and whole pepper, long enough to take out the
strong taste of the spice, then strain it off, melt
three quarters of a pound of butter smooth in
the water, cut your lobster in very small pieces,
stew it all together tenderly with anchovy, and
fend it up hot.

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