Lobster Thermidor is a French dish consisting of a creamy, cheesy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and brandy or sherry, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust. Image File history File links Slobtherm. ... Cream is a dairy product that is composed of the higher-fat layer skimmed from the top of raw milk before homogenization. ... Cheese is a solid food made from the milk of cows, goats, sheep, and other mammals. ... For the magazine, see Lobster (magazine) Subfamilies and Genera Neophoberinae Acanthacaris Thymopinae Nephropsis Nephropides Thymops Thymopsis Nephropinae Homarus Nephrops Homarinus Metanephrops Eunephrops Thymopides Clawed lobsters comprise a family (Nephropidae, sometimes also Homaridae) of large marine crustaceans. ... An egg yolk surrounded by the egg white. ... Brandy pot stills at the Van Ryn Brandy Cellar near Stellenbosch, South Africa Brandy (short for brandywine, from Dutch brandewijn—burning wine) is a general term for distilled wine, usually 40–60% ethyl alcohol by volume. ... Sherry solera Sherry is a type of wine originally produced in and around the town of Jerez, Spain. ... Oven depicted in a painting by Millet An oven is an enclosed compartment for heating, baking or drying. ...

Lobster Thermidor was created in 1894 by Marie's, a Paris restaurant near the theatre Comedie-Français, to honor the opening of the play "Thermidor," by Victorien Sardou.^{[citation needed]} Unlike the recipe, the play named for a month of the French Republican Calendar was not a critical success, and is rarely performed. The French Republican Calendar or French Revolutionary Calendar is a calendar proposed during the French Revolution, and used by the French government for about twelve years from late 1793. ...

Due to expensive and extensive preparation involved, Lobster Thermidor, and similar recipes such as Lobster Newberg, primarily remain recipes for special occasions. Lobster Newberg is a seafood dish made from lobster, butter, cream, and eggs. ...

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The sauce must contain mustard (typically powdered mustard) in order to be true to the original recipe and to have that distinctive Thermidor taste. Image File history File links Wikibooks-logo-en. ...