Photo: David Todd McCarty
Ingredients
- 1 gallon of water
- 5 ounces salt
Directions
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[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