Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  11      teaspoons     butter
   2      teaspoons     flour
  11      ounces        lobster meat -- in dice
   4      ounces        heavy cream
   6      ounces        stock -- (fish or meat, or
                        -- even vegetable)
                        salt -- white pepper
                        paprika -- cayenne
                        Tabasco -- and/or
                        celery salt
   2      tablespoons   sherry
   1 1/2  cups          white bread crumbs

Preparation:

Melt 2 t butter and add the flour. Heat a few seconds over medium heat and add the lobster. Stir in cream and stock. Simmer, stirring constantly, for 10 minutes Season to taste with the seasonings in any combination you wish. Remove the lobster mixture to a casserole or individual ovenproof serving dishes and keep warm. In the cooking pan, add the sherry and the remaining 3 T butter. When butter is melted, stir in the breadcrumbs. Distribute the crumb-butter mixture over the lobster in the casserole(s). Bake in preheated 400 oven for 5 min or broil until crumbs are brown.