LOBSTER SAUCE

Choose a fine hen lobster; let it be fresh; boil it; pick out the spawn and red coral in a mortar; add 1/2 ounce of butter, pound smooth, rub through a hair sieve with back of wooden spoon, cut lobster meat in small squares, put pounded spawn into as much melted butter as will do, and stir it together till mixed; now put in lobster meat and warm it on the fire; do not let it boil, as that will deprive it of its red color. Some use veal or beef gravy instead of melted butter.