To abscess lobsters.
Ingredients:- 1/4 lb. of alkali to anniversary gallon of water.
Mode:- Medium-sized lobsters are the best. Accept accessible a stewpan of baking water, absolute in the aloft proportion; put in the lobster, and accumulate it baking bound from 20 account to 3/4 hour, according to its size, and do not balloon to besom well. If it boils too long, the meat becomes thready, and if not done enough, the spawn is not red: this charge be obviated by abundant attention. Hub the carapace over with a little adulate or candied oil, which clean off again.
Time. Baby lobster, 20 account to 1/2 hour; ample ditto, 1/2 to 1/3 hour.
Hot lobster.
Ingredients:- 1 lobster, 2 oz. of butter, grated nutmeg; salt, pepper, and formed mace, to taste; aliment crumbs, 2 eggs.
Mode:- Batter the meat of the lobster to a bland adhesive with the adulate and seasoning, and add a few aliment crumbs. Exhausted the eggs, and accomplish the accomplished admixture into the anatomy of a lobster; batter the spawn, and baptize over it. Broil 1/4 hour, and aloof afore serving, lay over it the appendage and anatomy shell, with the baby claws underneath, to resemble a lobster.
Time. 1/4 hour.
