LOBSTER CURRY (an Entree)
Origin: London, England
Source: Isabella Beeton, 1861
Ingredients
- 1 lobster
- 2 onions
- 1 oz butter
- 1 tablespoonful curry-powder
- 1/2 pint medium stock, No. 105
- the juice of 1/2 lemon
Instructions
- Pick the meat from the shell, and cut it into nice square pieces;
- fry the onions of a pale brown in the butter, stir in the curry-powder and stock, and simmer till it thickens, when put in the lobster;
- stew the whole slowly for 1/2 hour, and stir occasionally; and just before sending to table, put in the lemon-juice.
- Serve boiled rice with it, the same as for other curries.