LOBSTER (a la Mode Francaise)

Ingredients

• 1 lobster
• 4 tablespoonful white stock
• 2 tablespoonful cream, pounded mace, and cayenne to taste
• bread crumbs

Instructions

1. Pick the meat from the shell, and cut it up into small square pieces;
2. put the stock, cream, and seasoning into a stewpan, add the lobster, and let it simmer gently for 6 minutes.
3. Serve it in the shell, which must be nicely cleaned, and have a border of puff-paste;
4. cover it with bread crumbs, place small pieces of butter over, and brown before the fire, or with a salamander.