Crabs A la Creole

Ingredients

• an ounce of butter
• a small onion
• a sweet Spanish pepper
• a half-pint of strained tomato pulp
• a gill of chicken broth
• four soft crabs

Method

1. 1

   Melt the butter in a hot-water dish, cook the onion and pepper for five minutes, stirring.

2. 2

   Add the tomato pulp, chicken broth, and the cleaned crabs cut in two.

3. 3

   Season with celery salt and simmer for seven minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The bachelor and the chafing dish (1895) by Deshler Welch, page 32. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crabs A la Creole. — Into the hot-water dish melt an ounce of butter, and cook in it for five minutes a small onion and a sweet Spanish pepper minced ; stir while frying, and add a half-pint of strained tomato pulp, a gill of chicken broth, and four soft crabs

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