Salad (Lobster)

Origin: Cape Town, South Africa

Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pick all the meat out of a lobster.
  2. Beat well the yolks of 2 new-laid eggs, beat in some made mustard, and, continuing to beat, drop in the salad oil.
  3. Add any flavouring that may be preferred, a taste of chilli vinegar, some plain vinegar (4 tablespoonfuls), and the soft part of the lobster.
  4. Moisten the remainder of the lobster with this sauce and lay it at the bottom of the bowl.
  5. Cut up the lettuce, rolling it in the dressing, and put it over the lobster.

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