Name: To Boil Lobsters
Ingredients: 1 gallon water; 5 ounces coarse sea salt; 1 moderate-sized lobster (15-20 minutes cooking time); 1 large lobster (30-40 minutes cooking time); 1 very large lobster (1 hour or more cooking time)

To Boil Lobsters

Ingredients

1 gallon water
5 ounces coarse sea salt
1 moderate-sized lobster (15-20 minutes cooking time)
1 large lobster (30-40 minutes cooking time)
1 very large lobster (1 hour or more cooking time)

Directions

Bring 1 gallon of water to a fast boil.
Add 5 ounces of coarse sea salt to the boiling water.
Carefully add the lobster to the pot.
Boil a moderate-sized lobster for 15‑20 minutes, a large lobster for 30‑40 minutes, or a very large lobster for 1 hour or more.
Remove the lobster from the pot and serve.

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.