Good Lobster Sauce

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Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Select for this a perfectly fresh hen lobster;
split the tail carefully, and take out the inside coral;
pound half of it in a mortar very smoothly with less than an ounce of butter, rub it through a hair-sieve, and put it aside.
Cut the firm flesh of the fish into dice of not less than half an inch in size;
and when these are ready, make as much good melted butter as will supply the quantity of sauce required for table, and if to be served with a turbot or other large fish to a numerous company, let it be plentifully provided.
Season it slightly with essence of anchovies, and well with cayenne, mace, and salt;
add to it a few spoonsful of rich cream, and then mix a small portion of it very gradually with the pounded coral;
when this is sufficiently liquefied pour it into the sauce, and stir the whole well together;
put in immediately the flesh of the fish, and heat the sauce thoroughly by the side of the fire without allowing it to boil, for if it should do so its fine colour would be destroyed.
The whole of the coral may be used for the sauce when no portion of it is required for other purposes.