How To Roast Lobsters

When lobsters are roasted, they need not be put on a spit, as is the common way; but boil them first, and lay them before the fire; then baste them with butter till they have a fine froth. Take them up, lay them in a dish, and put plain melted butter in a baton.

How To Butter Lobsters

First parboil the lobster, and carefully take out all the meat from the tail, claws, and body cut it small, and put it into a saucepan with five or six spoonfuls of white wine, a little beaten pepper, a blade of mace, and a little salt; stew it a few minutes, and then put in a piece of butter; shake the saucepan round till the butter is melted; and add a spoonful of vinegar, with as many crumbs of bread as will make it thick enough. Broil the chine of the lobster with pepper and salt; then pour the mixture out of the saucepan into a plate, and lay the chine round it, cut into four parts. The same proportion must be observed when there is three or four lobsters butter'd at a time.