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Rh 2 lb. lobster Salt and pepper 3 tablespoons butter Lemon juice Remove lobster meat from shell and chop slightly. Melt butter, add lobster, and when heated, season and serve garnished with lobster claws.

2 lb. lobster Vs teaspoon salt 1143 cups White Sauce IT - Few grains cayenne 2 teaspoons lemon juice

Remove lobster meat from shell and cut in cubes. Heat in White Sauce and add seasonings. Refill lobster shells, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake until crumbs are brown. To prevent lobster shells from curling over lobster while baking, insert small wooden skewers of sufficient length to keep shell in its original shape. ‘To assist in preserving color of shell, brush over with olive oil before putting into oven. Scalloped lobster may be baked in buttered peallop shells, or in a buttered baking dish.

Scalloped lobster highly seasoned is served as Devilled Lobster. .Use larger proportions of same seasonings, with the addition of mustard.

Prepare as Scalloped Lobster, adding to flour one-haif teaspoon curry powder when making White Sauce.

1 cup chopped lobster meat. Slight grating nutmeg Yolks 2 “ hard-boiled ” eggs 14 cup buttered crumbs ig tablespoon chopped parsley Salt. 1 cup White Sauce I | Pepper

To lobster meat add yolks of eggs rubbed to a paste, parsley, sauce, and seasonings to taste. Fill lobster shells, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake until crumbs are brown.