Creamed Lobster

Name: Creamed Lobster
Ingredients: 8–10 small rounds of fried bread or toast; or 2–3 slices of toast; pinch of grated nutmeg; pinch of pepper; good pinch of salt; white sauce; ½ gill cream or creamy; ½ gill cream or creamy; 2 egg yolks; 1 oz. butter; 1 small cooked lobster; parsley

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery

By Isabella Beeton

Published 1871

About

Ingredients

1 small cooked lobster
1 oz. butter
2 egg yolks

Starter
Spicy

Method

Remove the flesh of the lobster from the body and claws, and cut this into flakes. Cook in the butter for about 5 min. only—no longer as this toughens the lobster meat. Add the beaten egg yolks and cream or white sauce, the seasonings and nutmeg, and heat gently until the mixture thickens. Put on to the rounds of bread and garnish with parsley.