Lobster Cutlets.
- Ingredients—1 hen lobster.
- 1½ oz. of butter.
- 1 oz. of flour.
- 1 gill of cold water.
- 2 tablespoonfuls of cream.
- A few drops of lemon juice.
- Cayenne.
- Pepper and salt.
- Some spawn or coral.
- Egg and bread-crumbs.
- Parsley.
Method.—Remove the flesh from the body of the lobster, and cut it up.
Pound the coral in a mortar, with half an ounce of butter, and rub it through a hair sieve. (If spawn is used it need not be pounded.)
Melt 1 oz. of butter in a stewpan.
Mix in the flour; add the water; stir until it thickens.
Then add the coral, and butter, and cook well.
Next the cream, lemon juice, cayenne, pepper, salt, and lastly the chopped lobster.
Spread the mixture on a plate to cool.
When cool, shape into cutlets.
Egg and bread-crumb, and fry in hot fat in a frying-basket.
Put a piece of the feeler in each, to represent a bone.
Garnish with fried parsley.