Crab Canapés

Ingredients

• two ounces of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• a pint of cream
• one pound of crab meat
• slices of bread one-quarter of an inch thick
• one-quarter of a pound of butter
• one-half pound grated Parmesan cheese
• season with red and white pepper

Method

1. 1

   Chop a medium-sized shallot and fry it lightly without coloring in the butter.

2. 2

   Add flour and stir in cream.

3. 3

   Then add crab meat, salt, and pepper, and leave on the fire until it just begins to bubble.

4. 4

   Cut and toast the bread on one side, butter it, and put the mixture on the toasted side.

5. 5

   Mix butter and Parmesan cheese, season, and put the canapés on a buttered dish.

6. 6

   Brown slightly in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Seely's Cook Book: A Manual of French and American Cookery : with .. (1902) by Lida Seely, page 76. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

two ounces of butter. Add a tablespoonf ul of flour and Btir in a pint of cream. Then add one pound of crab meat, salt and pepper, and leave on the fire until it h&s just begun to bubble. Cut slices of bread one-quarter of an inch thick, trim in any desired shape, either round, ovai, or square, and toast on one side only. Put your ingredients on the toasted side of the bread after buttering it with a butter prepared as follows : Mix well together one-quarter of a pound of butter and one-half pound grated Parmesan cheese, and season with red and white pepper

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