Crab Pie

Ingredients

• two crabs
• three ounces of butter
• one ounce of flour
• one gill of milk
• one gill of cream
• one tea-spoonful of anchovy sauce
• one table-spoonful of bread crumbs
• one salt-spoonful of pepper
• one half salt-spoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil crabs for 15 minutes, pick meat from shells.

2. 2

   Melt butter, add flour, milk, and cream, boil for 2 minutes.

3. 3

   Mix in anchovy sauce, pepper, salt, and crab meat.

4. 4

   Fill shells with mixture, sprinkle with bread crumbs, add butter pieces, and brown in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Handbook of practical cookery (1886) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

CRAB PIE. 29 OYSTERS AND OTHER SHELLFISH- SPECIAL DISHES. Oyster Balls. — One dozen oysters, two ounces of veal, two ounces beef suet, one salt-spoonful powdered mace, one quarter tea-spoonful salt, one quarter tea-spoonful pepper, three table-spoonfuls bread crumbs, one egg. Place the oysters and their liquor in a sauce-pan, place the pan over the fire, and just allow the liquor to come to the boiling-point. Strain the oysters from the liquor and chop them very finely. Remove the skin from the suet and chop it very finely. Chop very finely the veal. Place the oysters, veal, and suet in a basin ; add the mace, pepper, and salt. Stir all well with a spoon, drop in the yolk of egg, stir again together. Flour slightly a board, and roll the mixture into small balls, beat up the white of egg on a plate, roll each ball in it. Place on a sheet of paper the bread crumbs, and roll each ball in it. Half fill a sauce-pan with clarified fat, heat it over the fire until the smoke rises. Drop in one by one the balls and cook them for two minutes. Take them out one by one, and drain them for a second on a sheet of kitchen paper. Serve on a hot napkin and garnish with parsley. Crab Pie or Deviled Crabs.— Provide two crabs, three ounces of butter, one ounce of flour, one gill of milk, one gill of cream, one tea-spoonful of anchovy sauce, one table- spoonful of bread crumbs, one salt-spoonful of pepper, one half salt-spoonful of salt

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