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TO BOIL LOBSTERS
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TO BOIL LOBSTERS

2 ingredients 3 steps gutenberg
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Ingredients

  • 1 gallon of water
  • 5 ounces salt

Directions

1

[In full season from April to October: may be had all the year.]

2

Choose them by the directions given at the commencement of this chapter, and throw them into plenty of _fast-boiling_ salt and water, that life may be destroyed in an instant.

3

To 1 gallon of water, 5 ounces salt: moderate sized lobster, 15 to 20 minutes; large lobster, 30 to 40 minutes; _very_ large, 1 hour or more.

By Eliza Acton · Recipe sourced from gutenberg

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