Lobster Barquettes, called à la Victoria

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Pound the creamy parts of the lobster shells and pass them through a sieve, then use them to bring a sauce Homard to point.
  2. Bind a fine salpicon of lobster flesh, mushrooms and truffles with this sauce.
  3. Fill the barquettes dome-shaped with the salpicon.
  4. Set a small, very thin escalope of lobster at each end of the barquette.
  5. Place a smaller slice of truffle in the middle.

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