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Broiled Lobster

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Broiled Lobster

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Get a live lobster weighing about \\ pounds, cut off and crack the claws, split in two and clean out the head; season with salt, paprika and olive oil, and broil over a brisk fire, cut part upward, 10 minutes ; remove and bake 10 minutes. Bake the claws the whole time the lobsters are cooking. Spread with maitre d'hotel butter, and serve with quarters of lemon.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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. See the original page.

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