Boiled Lobsters

4 lobsters.

1 tablespoon salt.

1 pod pepper.

2 bay leaves.

1/2 pt. white wine.

1 qt. water.

Wash lobsters through several waters until clean. Boil them in wine mixed with water, salt, pepper and bay leaves.

Lobster Chops

2 cups chopped lobsters. 2 eggs.

2 tablespoons butter. 1/2 teaspoon salt.

3 tablespoons corn starch.

1 cup cream or milk.

1 teaspoon minced parsley.

1/4 coffee-spoon cayenne pepper.

Boil milk or cream, thicken with corn starch and but-ter, add lobsters seasoned with salt and pepper. Pour into a pan to get cold. Mould in chop shape, dip in bread crumbs, then in eggs and then in bread crumbs again. Pry in hot lard. Put small pieces of bone or stick in end to imitate a chop.

Lobster Coquille

4 lobsters or 2 cans lobsters. 2 tablespoons browned flour. 1/2 teaspoon minced parsley. 1 teaspoon prepared mustard. 1/2 coffee-spoon cayenne pepper.

1 pt. milk.

3 tablespoons butter. 1 wine glass sherry. 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Boil milk thickened with browned flour and butter creamed, add seasonings, mustard, lobster and wine. Cook a few minutes. Put in shells, cover with bread crumbs and bake about 20 minutes.

Lobster. Croquettes

1 1/2 pts. lobster, finely minced. 1 tablespoon corn starch. 1/4 teaspoon minced onion. 1/2 teaspoon minced parsley. 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper. 1/2 cup bread crumbs.

1 cup cream.

1 cup milk.

2 eggs.

1 tablespoon butter. 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Scald milk and cream with onion and parsley, add corn starch and butter, cook 5 minutes longer, then stir in lobster, salt and pepper; put this on ice to get cold. When cold mould in croquettes, dip in whipped eggs and then in bread crumbs and fry.

Lobster With Cream

2 cups lobster, cut fine. 1 pt. milk.

1/2 tablespoon flour. 1/2 teaspoon mustard. 1 wine glass sherry.

1/2 teaspoon salt. 1/2 teaspoon minced parsley. 8 drops Tobasco sauce. 1 1/2 tablespoons butter.

Boil milk with onion, parsley and Tobasco sauce, add flour and butter creamed, then mustard and lobster. Cook a few minutes longer, stir in wine and salt. Serve either in cases or shells.

Lobster Farcie

2 lobsters boiled and picked, or

2 cups of canned lobster.

2 tablespoons butter.

2 tablespoons flour.

1 cup cream.

1/2 tablespoon salt.

2 tablespoons fresh bread crumbs. 1/2 tablespoon minced parsley. 1/4 tablespoon cayenne pepper. Yolks of 3 hard boiled eggs.

Heat butter in sauce pan; stir in flour, cream, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, finely chopped eggs and parsley. Cook a few minutes and then stir in lobster. Fill the whole lobster shell and head with this. Cover the top with bread crumbs and small pieces of butter. Bake 5 minutes.

Lobster A La Newberg

1 1/2 cup lobster cut in 1 inch pieces.

1 tablespoon butter.

3/4 cup of Madeira wine.

1 cup cream.

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper

2 yolks of eggs.

1 tablespoon minced truffles.

1/4 tablespoon salt.

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Put butter in sauce pan. When melted add lobster, truffles, pepper and salt; let it simmer 5 minutes, then add wine and let it cook 3 minutes longer. Beat the yolks well and add the cream to them and stir into lobster. Serve immediately. Do not let it cook after mixing, as it will curdle.

Lobster In Pastry

2 tablespoons finely cut cooked lobster.

2 tablespoons butter.

1/2 cup veal or chicken stock.

1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

2 teaspoons flour.

1 cup cream.

2 sliced truffles. 12 sliced mushrooms.

Heat stock and cream together, add mushrooms, truf-flles, salt and pepper. Stir into this flour and butter. Cook a few minutes and then add lobster, and put in baked pastry.

Lobster Stew

4 fresh boiled or 2 cans lobsters.

1 pt. lobster stock or stock made from head of a fish.

1 teaspoon salt.

1 tablespoon minced onion.

1 cup cream.

1/2 tablespoon minced parsley.

1 pod pepper.

2 tablespoons butter. 2 tablespoons flour.

Cut lobster in inch pieces. Heat butter and put in onion, flour, cream, stock, parsley, salt and pepper. Cook 5 minutes and then stir in lobster. Serve immediately.