Crabs in Shells

Ingredients

• Boil a few crabs
• add to it one onion
• ground ginger
• lemon juice
• mushroom catsup
• salt
• pepper
• Pour in a little stock
• sprinkle this over the mixture
• a few small lumps of butter on the tops

Method

1. 1

   Boil crabs, pick meat, chop and mix with onion, ginger, lemon juice, catsup, salt, and pepper.

2. 2

   Cook in butter, add stock, fill crab shells, top with coral and breadcrumbs, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 36. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crabs in Shells. Boil a few crabs, pick out the meat and place the coral on one side. Chop up the meat, add to it one onion, ground ginger, lemon juice, mushroom catsup, salt and pepper ; put the mixture into a fryingpan with butter and cook until the butter is absorbed. Pour in a little stock, boil until nearly evaporated, then remove the pan from the fire. Butter five of the crab shells and fill them with the mixture. Grind the coral, mingle it with some breadcrumbs, sprinkle this over the mixture, put a few small lumps of butter on the tops

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