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Fricassee of Lobster and Mushrooms

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

Public domain source

Gather

Ingredients

  • 2 lb Lobster
  • ¼ cup Butter
  • ¾ lb Mushrooms
  • Few drops Onion Juice
  • ¼ cup Flour
  • 1½ cups Milk
  • As needed Salt
  • As needed Paprika
  • 2 tablespoons Sherry Wine

Make it

Method

  1. 1

    Remove lobster meat from shell and cut in strips. Cook butter with mushrooms broken in pieces and onion juice three minutes; add flour, and pour on gradually milk. Add lobster meat, season with salt and paprika, and, as soon as lobster is heated, add wine.

  2. 2

    Remove to serving dish, and garnish with puff paste or toast points and parsley.

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Where this recipe comes from

Fricassee of Lobster and Mushrooms, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1910).

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Historical measurements, equipment, temperatures and terminology may differ from modern kitchen practice.