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Boiled Lobster

A simple boiled lobster prepared by cooking a live lobster in salted water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Boiled Lobster

Ingredients

Directions

Cook the lobster

  1. Fill a large pot with water and add a generous amount of coarse sea salt.

  2. Bring the water to a boil.

  3. Carefully add the live lobster to the pot.

  4. Boil the lobster for 15 to 30 minutes, depending on its size.

  5. Once cooked, remove the lobster from the pot and let it cool slightly.

Prepare and serve

  1. Split the lobster in half from head to tail.

  2. Remove the stomach and the bluish vein.

  3. Crack the claws to access the meat.

  4. Serve the lobster on a platter.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Lobster
Provides the main protein, which firms and turns opaque as it cooks.

“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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