Crab in Egg a la Lloyd George

Ingredients

• One cup of crab meat
• two tablespoons of mayonnaise dressing
• one tablespoon of dissolved Cox’s gelatine
• a teaspoon of anchovy paste
• six slices of bread
• three eggs
• one teaspoon of lemon juice
• a squeeze of an onion
• pepper
• salt
• one tablespoon of butter

Method

1. 1

   If fresh crabs, cook them twenty minutes; leave in the juice to cool then pick the meat out.

2. 2

   Be careful not to have any of the shell.

3. 3

   Shred it fine, and add to the butter that first must be stirred to a cream.

4. 4

   Add the anchovy paste, a teaspoon of lemon juice, a squeeze of an onion, pepper and salt.

5. 5

   Cut the eggs in halves crosswise that first have been hard boiled, time twelve minutes.

6. 6

   Scoop out the yolk and part of the white if it is very thick, then fill the whites with the mixture.

7. 7

   Spread the rest of what is left on to the bread.

8. 8

   Cut the bread out with a round biscuit cutter.

9. 9

   Place one of the eggs on each with the cut side down.

10. 10

    Then stir the yolks of the eggs to a cream, add the spoon of gelatine and mayonnaise dressing, put it in a paper bag that holds a ribbon tube.

11. 11

    Decorate with it a ribbon around on the sandwich.

12. 12

    Circle the eggs with the butter that first has been stirred, and color with the orange coloring.

13. 13

    Arrange in the form of a ring on a platter.

14. 14

    Garnish with parsley in the center and all around with lemon and crab claws.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Ericsson Hammond's salad appetizer cook book... (1924) by Maria Matilda Ericsson Hammond, page 14. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crab in Egg a la Lloyd George Crabe en CEufs a la Lloyd George For Six Persons One cup of crab meat, two tablespoons of mayonnaise dressing, one tablespoon of dissolved Cox’s gelatine, a teaspoon of anchovy paste, six slices of bread, three eggs, one teaspoon of lemon juice, a squeeze of an onion, and pepper and salt, and one tablespoon of butter

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