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Baked Crabs

From The New century cook book, 1899

Serves 5

Serve with sliced lemon and crackers.

Presented as published in 1899. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from The New century cook book (1899), page 25. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt to taste, rub everything together, place back in the shell and pack it in very hard, place a small lump of butter on top of the crab, put in the oven and bake until they are a nice brown. Serve in shell hot. Mrs. L. W. Murphy. Baked Crabs. Crab meat of twelve crabs, three small onions, chopped, put into pan (frying pan) with two slices of moistened bread (add a little butter), two tomatoes chopped fine; let brown, then New Century Cook Book. 51 add two hard-boiled eggs, chopped; pepper, salt, oil, vinegar, celery, to taste; sprinkle bread crumbs
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