Recipes - Dial a Lobster Thermidor

Lobster Thermidor Ingredients for 4 people

4 small cooked rock lobsters
1 ½ pints cream sauce
1 liqueur glass of dry Sherry
1 teaspoon of strong mustard
1 pinch of Cayenne pepper
1 teaspoon of Worcester sauce
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Cream sauce : 40 g (1 ½ oz) butter, 40 g (1 ½ oz) flour, 1 pint milk, 4 to 6 soup spoons of cream.

Preparation

Cut the lobsters in two lengthwise.

Remove the flesh and cut into large pieces. Put the shells aside.

Heat the cream sauce, season with a small amount of Sherry, mustard, Cayenne pepper, Worcester sauce, salt and pepper and cook slowly for 2 minutes.

Add the pieces of lobster and heat up. Fill the shells with this mixture, sprinkle with parmesan cheese and a pinch of paprika. Put in a few pieces of butter on top and place under the grill.

Cream sauce: Prepare a pint of Béchamel sauce (40 g (1 ½ oz) butter, 40 g (1 ½ oz) flour, 1 pint milk. When it is cooked, add 4 to 6 soup spoons of cream, salt and black pepper.

Lobster Quote of the Day

“My temples throb, my pulses boil,
I'm sick of song, and ode, and ballad--
So, Thyrsis, take the midnight oil,
And pour it on a lobster salad.” Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

Lobsters and the Arts

To shock the bourgeois, French writer Gerard de Nerval sometimes used to take his pet lobster for walks through the streets of Paris.

Jean-Paul Sartre on the other hand often had hallucinations of being pursued by a lobster, - proof of reincarnation if ever there was !

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