Crab Pie or Deviled Crabs

Ingredients

• two crabs
• three ounces of butter
• one ounce of flour
• one gill of milk
• one gill of cream
• one teaspoonful of anchovy sauce
• one tablespoonful of bread crumbs
• one saltspoonful of pepper
• one-half saltspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Boil crabs for 15 minutes, pick meat, and prepare 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, sprinkle with bread crumbs, add butter, and brown in a quick oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The art of cooking (1880) by Matilda Lees Dods, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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 teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, one tablespoonful of bread crumbs, one saltspoonful of pepper, one-half saltspoonful of salt

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.