Crab Croquettes

Ingredients

• 1 crab
• 2 boiled potatoes
• 1 cupful breadcrumbs
• 2 eggs
• Cayenne and salt
• Boiling fat
• Butter

Method

1. 1

   Pick the flesh from the crab, mash the potatoes with butter, salt, cayenne, parsley, and half the breadcrumbs.

2. 2

   Beat one egg and mix well.

3. 3

   Form into balls, dip in egg and breadcrumbs, and fry until golden brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Maclurcan's cookery book (1899) by H. Maclurcan, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

1 crab Butter Vinegar Mustard Pepper and salt. Mode. — Pick all the flesh out and mix it in a basin with about a tablespoonful of butter, a saltspoonful of mustard, a little cayenne and salt, put into scalloped shells, then moisten it all with vinegar. Cover with breadcrumbs and bake. 106— SCALLOPED CEAB. The flesh of 1 crab J pt. white sauce Cayenne and salt Breadcrumbs Butter Juice of J a lemon Mode. — Pick the flesh from the crab, mix with a cupful of white sauce, cayenne and salt to taste, and a • little lemon ; put into the scalloped shells or patty pans, cover with breadcrumbs and a little butter, and bake until brown, or brown with salamander. Crabs, I07~CEAB MAYONNAISE. 1 crab 1 lettuce A cupful mayonnaise And garnishing 2 hard-boiled eggs Eew capers. Mode. — Pick the crab, put into the centre of a salad bowl, then fill around with broken lettuce, not too small. Pour over the mayonnaise (recipe found among the salad dressings), chop up a couple of hard-boiled eggs and a few capers, and sprinkle over the top. 108_CEAB QUENELLES. Flesh of 1 crab 2 ozs. butter 2 ozs. breadcrumbs 1 tablespoonful of anchovy 4 eggs sauce A little cayenne Juice of J a lemon Salt and pepper. Mode. — Take the meat of a good-sized crab, break it very small and mix with two ounces of butter and as many of breadcrumbs (which have been soaked in water and wrung in a cloth), season with cayenne, lemon, nutmeg, and a tablespoonful of anchovy sauce, add two eggs and yolk of one, and mix thoroughly over the fire. Let the mixture become cold, then shape into neat balls, dip into well beaten egg and breadcrumbs and fry in boiling fat. Serve with fresh parsley. 109— CEAB ENTEEE. Flesh of 1 female crab 1 cupful breadcrumbs Lemon peel 1 teaspoonf ul of mixed 1 egg herbs Butter. Mode.— Get a good female crab, take out all the meat, put the coral on one side, pound the meat in a mortar, add one cupful of fine breadcrumbs and grated peel of a small lemon, a little nutmeg, a teaspoonful of mixed herbs, salt and pepper to taste. Bind the mixture Crabs, with a well-beaten egg, moisten with cream, butter some dariole moulds and fill. Bake for fifteen minutes and turn out, garnish with coral rubbed through a sieve. Rot or may be cold for supper. llO—CEAB A LA FEANCAISE. 1 crab 2 or 3 ozs. butler Saltspoonf ul cayenne Tablespoonful tomato sauce J cupful of white sauce Juice of a lemon Mode. — Pick the flesh from the crab, over it squeeze the lemon, sprinkle the cayenne and put it into a saucepan with the butter, white sauce and tomato sauce ; allow all to boil. Serve on toast either as an entree or savoury. 111— DEVILLED CEAB, 1 crab 1 oz. butter Cayenne and salt Tablespoonful curry powder Tablespoonful Worcester- ^ a cupful of white sauce shire sauce Mode. — Pick the flesh from the crab, put the butter into a saucepan with a little cayenne and salt, add the curry powder and sauce ; add the white sauce, and, when boiling, add the crab. Serve with rice. 112— CEAB CEOQUETS. 1 crab 2 boiled potatoes 1 cupful breadcrumbs 2 eggs

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