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 70 SHELL-FISH.

cayenne pepper ; add a little melted butter, about two tablespoonf uls if the bread is rather dry ; form into egg-shaped or round balls ; roll them in egg, then in fine crumbs, and fry in boiling lard.

LOBSTER PATTIES.

CUT some boiled lobster in small pieces ; then take the small claws and the spawn, put them in a suitable dish, and jam them to a paste with a potato masher. Now add to them a ladlef ul of gravy or broth, with a few bread crumbs; set it over the fire and boil; strain it through a strainer, or sieve, to the thickness of a cream, and put half of it to your lobsters, and save the other half to sauce them with after they are baked. Put to the lobster the bigness of an egg of butter, a little pepper and salt ; squeeze in a lemon, and warm these over the fire enough to melt the butter, set it to cool, and sheet your patty pan or a plate or dish with good puff paste, then put in your lobster, and cover it with a paste; bake it within three-quarters of an hour be- fore you want it ; when it is baked, cut up your cover, and warm up the other half of your sauce above mentioned, with a little butter, to the thickness of cream, and pour it over your patty, with a little squeezed lemon; cut your cover in two, and lay it on the top, two inches distant, so that what is under may be seen. You may bake crawfish, shrimps or prawns the same way ; and they are all proper for plates or little dishes for a second course.

LOBSTER A LA NEWBURG.

TAKE one whole lobster, cut up in pieces about as large as a hickory nut. Put in the same pan with a piece of butter size of a walnut, season with salt and pepper to taste, and thicken with heavy cream sauce ; add the yolk of one egg and two oz. of sherry wine.

Cream sauce for above is made as follows : 1 oz. butter, melted in saucepan; 2 oz. flour, mixed with butter, thin down to proper con- sistency with boiling cream.

Rector's Oyster House ; Chicago. BAKED CRABS.

Mix with the contents of a can of crabs, bread crumbs or pounded crackers. Pepper and salt the whole to taste ; mince some cold ham ; have the baking pan well buttered, place therein first a layer of the crab meat, prepared as above, then a layer of the minced ham, and

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