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Lobster Bisque
Photo: David Todd McCarty

Lobster Bisque

7 ingredients 1 steps gutenberg
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

811
Calories
45g
Protein
21g
Fat
108g
Carbs

Counts 6 of 7 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 6 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Flour 1 cup (125g) all-purpose 455
Milk 1 cup (244ml) whole 149
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Cayenne 1 tsp (1.8g) 6
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Water not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 lb. lobster
  • 2 cups cold water
  • 4 cups milk
  • ¼ cup butter
  • ¼ cup flour
  • 1½ teaspoons salt
  • Few grains of cayenne

Directions

1

Remove meat from lobster shell. Add cold water to body bones and tough end of claws, cut in pieces; bring slowly to boiling-point, and cook twenty minutes. Drain, reserve liquor, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Scald milk with tail meat of lobster, finely chopped; strain, and add to liquor. Season with salt and cayenne; then add tender claw meat, cut in dice, and body meat. When coral is found in lobster, wash, wipe, force through fine strainer, put in a mortar with butter, work until well blended, then add flour, and stir into soup. If a richer soup is desired, White Stock may be used in place of water.

By Fannie Merritt Farmer · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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