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Buttered Lobster

A historical dinner recipe from Fannie Merritt Farmer's 1910 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

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Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 lb Lobster
  • 3 tablespoons Butter
  • As needed Salt and Pepper
  • As needed Lemon Juice

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Remove lobster meat from shell and chop slightly. Melt butter, add lobster, and when heated, season and serve garnished with lobster claws.

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Where this recipe comes from

Buttered Lobster, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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