Buttered Crab and Lobster
Crab or Lobster Meat
2-3 Water
1-2 White Wine Vinegar
Butter
Mace
Pepper
Remove all of the meat from the crab or lobster.
Place into a saucepan, with the water and vinegar, a little pepper, mace and a lump of butter.
Shake the saucepan over a high heat until very hot, but do not boil.
Serve in scallop shells, decorated with the crab or lobster claws.
To Butter Crab and Lobster
Dress all the meat out of the belly and claws of your lobster, put it into a stew-pan, with two or three spoonfuls of water, a spoonful or two of white wine vinegar, a little pepper, shred mace, and a lump of butter, shake it over the stove till it be very hot, but do not let it boil, if you do it will oil; put it into your dish, and lay round it your small claws:- it is as proper to put it in scallop shells as on a dish.
English Housewifry - 1764
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