To Boil Lobsters
Ingredients
Directions
Choose lobsters by the directions given at the commencement of this chapter, and throw them into plenty of fast-boiling salt and water.
Add 1 gallon of water and 5 ounces salt; cook moderate sized lobster 15–20 minutes, large lobster 30–40 minutes, very large lobster 1 hour or more.
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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The step that matters
Timing by lobster size. Cook time depends on size, and lobster meat turns tough and rubbery when overcooked, because its proteins tighten under prolonged heat. Match the time to the size of each lobster.
“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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