Fresh Lobster Bisque Recipe

Ingredients for Lobster Bisque

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

Instructions

1. Remove meat from lobster shell.
2. Add cold water to body bones and tough end of claws, cut in pieces; bring slowly to boiling-point, and cook twenty minutes.
3. Drain, reserve liquor, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together.
4. Scald milk with tail meat of lobster, finely chopped; strain, and add to liquor.
5. Season with salt and cayenne; then add tender claw meat, cut in dice, and body meat.
6. 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.
7. If a richer soup is desired, White Stock may be used in place of water.