Hot Lobster

Origin: London, England

Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pound the meat of the lobster to a smooth paste with the butter and seasoning, and add a few bread crumbs.
  2. Beat the eggs, and make the whole mixture into the form of a lobster;
  3. pound the spawn, and sprinkle over it.
  4. Bake 1/4 hour, and just before serving, lay over it the tail and body shell, with the small claws underneath, to resemble a lobster.

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