Required: One medium-sized lobster.

One ounce of butter. One tablespoonful of cream. Salt and pepper. Half a teaspoonful of chopped parsley.

Carefully pick out all the meat from the shell of the lobster, and chop it very finely. Melt the butter in a small saucepan, and stir in the lobster, cream, and salt and pepper to taste. Make this mixture very hot.

Wash the shell of the lobster, and cut it in half lengthways. Rub it over outside with a small piece of butter to give it a nice polished appearance Put the mixture into the pieces of shell.

Shake the chopped parsley over the top and serve it very hot, either on a folded napkin or a d'oyley.

Cost about Is. 6d.