This section is from the book "Practical Cooking And Serving", by Janet McKenzie Hill. Also available from Amazon: Practical Cooking and Serving: A Complete Manual of How to Select, Prepare, and Serve Food [1919].
Press boiled rice into cups. (See Rice Croustades.) When cold turn from the cups and remove the centres; brush over with yolk of egg, roll in bread crumbs and fry in deep fat; drain on soft paper, then fill with the following curry: Cook half an onion in butter; add one fourth a cup of flour, one tablespoonful of curry powder and one pint of cocoanut-milk. Strain over one pint of lobster, cut in cubes and seasoned with salt, pepper, and lemon juice, and reheat before serving.
Cook a shallot and four mushroom stalks, chopped fine, in a tablespoonful of butter. Add salt and pepper, the meat of a two-pound lobster, cut in cubes, and about a cup of hot tomato sauce; let stand over hot water until thoroughly heated, then turn into the clean lobster shell. Into the top of the mixture press four mushroom caps, peeled and sautéd five minutes in butter; pour a little tomato sauce over these and set in the oven about ten minutes. Serve on a folded napkin, or surround with parsley.
Lobster meat, cut in dice, may be mixed with an equal bulk of cream sauce and served in patty cases, shells, etc. In making the sauce, chicken, fish, or lobster stock and milk, or cream, may be used, either alone, or half and half.
 
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