Canapes Lorenzo

Ingredients

• Cut six slices of bread
• half an ounce of fresh butter
• boil eighteen hard-shell crabs
• season with a teaspoonful of salt
• half a saltspoonful of red pepper
• add two tablespoonfuls of flour
• add one gill of broth
• one ounce of butter
• a couple of ounces of grated Parmesan cheese
• an equal quantity of Swiss cheese

Method

1. 1

   Fry bread slices in butter until light brown.

2. 2

   Boil crabs, remove meat, and season.

3. 3

   Cook onion in butter, add flour and broth, then crab meat.

4. 4

   Cool and layer crab on toast, top with cheese balls, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 61. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Canapes Lorenzo. Cut six slices of bread the width of an American loaf and one-quarter of an inch in thickness, neatly pare off the crust and fry in a sautoire, together with half an ounce of ftesh butter, so as to make them a light brown color ; then boil eighteen hard-shell crabs in salted water for about twelve minutes, after which remove and allow them to become cool, when the upper shell should be removed, and with the aid of a pointed knife pick out all of the meat, cracking the claws and removing all the meat from there also ; place it all on a plate, season with a teaspoonful of salt and half a saltspoonful of red pepper ; then place one ounce of butter in a saucepan, with a peeled and very finely chopped onion, and cook them together for about two minutes over a moderate fire ; add two tablespoonfuls of flour, stir ag^in for two minutes, and add one gill of broth, and stir while slowly cooking for five minutes, now add the crab meat, and cook for quarter of an hour, stirring once in a while with a wooden spoon, then remove into another vessel and let it cool for fifteen minutes. Put in a sautoire a tablespoonful of good butter over a stove, and mix in with one tablespoonful of flour, and cook for three minutes gently ; add a couple of ounces of grated Parmesan cheese and an equal quantity of Swiss cheese

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