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1 2lb
cooked lobster
1 cup cold
water
4 cups
milk
1 cup
cream
1 small
slice onion
pinch
dried leaf thyme
1 small
bay leaf
1 whole
clove
4
peppercorns
1 sprig
parsley
2 tbsp
butter
4 square
soda biscuits, crushed of fine crumbs
2 tsp salt
1/8 tsp
pepper
1/2 tsp
paprika
pinch of
nutmeg
2 egg
yolks
2 tbsp dry
sherry, optional |
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Method :
Crack lobster
and remove meat and liver (green), keeping liver separate. Dice lobster
meat. Put lobster
shells in saucepan and add cold water. Bring to a boil, cover and boil
10 minutes. Strain off and save liquid. Discard shells. Put milk,
cream, onion, thyme, bay leaf, clove, peppercorns and parsley in
saucepan and bring to scalding point. Strain and return to pan.
Cream butter,
soda biscuit crumbs and lobster liver together in small bowl. Add a
little of the hot mixture, blending well, then stir back into milk
mixture. Add liquid from lobster shells. Bring to scalding again. Season
with salt, pepper, paprika and nutmeg. Beat egg
yolks and sherry together. Add a little of the hot mixture gradually,
stirring constantly,. Stir back into saucepan. Bring to simmering. Add
lobster meat and heat well but do not boil. Serve immediately.
Serves 4 - 6
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