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To Boil a Lobster

A lobster boiled in salted water for 30 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil a Lobster

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a kettle with enough water to cover the lobsters.

  2. Add the lobsters to the kettle before the water gets very hot.

  3. Add 2 tablespoons of coarse sea salt.

  4. Cover the kettle and boil for 30 minutes.

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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