Lobsters
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the lobsters in salt water until they turn red, about 20 minutes.
Carefully pack the boiled lobsters in ice for shipping.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Live lobsters
- Provide the main protein, which turns red and firms as it cooks in the hot water.
The step that matters
Boil the lobsters in salt water until they turn red. Overcooking toughens lobster meat, while undercooking leaves it unsafe to eat. The red colour signals that the shell pigment has changed, but size and heat both affect the exact time needed.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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