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Baked Crabs
From Original White House Cookbook, 1887
Serves 1
This dish is great for gatherings and can be served as a main course.
Presented as published in 1887. 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 Original White House Cookbook (1887) by Hugo Ziemann, F. L. Gillette, Hugo Zimmerman, mrs gillette, page 39. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
pepper to taste, and thicken with heavy cream sauce; add the yolk of one egg and two oz. of sherry wine. Cream sauce for above is made as follows: 1 oz. butter, melted in saucepan; 2 oz. fiour, mixed with butter; thin down to proper consistency with boiling cream. Rector’s Oyster House, Chicago. BAKED CRABS. Mix with the contents of a can of crabs, bread crumbs or pounded crackers. Pepper and salt the whole to taste; mince some cold ham; have the baking pan well buttered, place therein first a layer of the crab meat, prepared as above, then a layer of the minced ham, and so on, alternating until the pan is filled. Cover the top with bread crumbs and bits of but- ter, and bake. DEVILED CRABS. Half a dozen fresh crabs, boiled and minced, two ounces of butter, one small teaspoonful of mustard powder; cayenne pepper and salt to taste
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