Paul Ainsworth served up puff pastry parcels with a lobster filling (Les Bouchees de Homard ) on Royal Recipes with Michael Buerk.

The dish is said to have been served at a banquet hosted by Queen Victoria in 1894 for the engagement of one of her granddaughters.

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