Crabs in Shells

Ingredients

• half-a-dozen Crabs
• a small onion
• powdered ginger
• lime- or lemon-juice
• mushroom ketchup
• salt
• pepper
• butter
• breadcrumbs

Method

1. 1

   Clean and boil half-a-dozen Crabs, pick out the meat, and put the coral on one side.

2. 2

   Chop up the meat, add a small onion, powdered ginger, lime- or lemon-juice, mushroom ketchup, salt and pepper; put the mixture into a frying-pan with butter, and cook until the butter is absorbed.

3. 3

   Pour in a little stock, boil until it is nearly evaporated, then remove the pan from the fire.

4. 4

   Well butter five of the Crab shells, and fill them with the mixture.

5. 5

   Grind down the coral, mix it up with breadcrumbs, sprinkle it over the mixture, put a few small lumps of butter on the tops, place the shells in the oven, and bake for a few minutes.

6. 6

   Put them on a dish, and serve very hot.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 5 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The encyclopædia of practical cookery (1890) by Theodore Francis Garrett, page 509. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Crabs in Shells. — Clean and boil half-a-dozen Crabs, pick out the meat, and put the coral on one side. Chop up the meat, add a small onion, powdered ginger, or green ginger-juice, lime- or lemon-juice, mushroom ketchup, salt and pepper ; put the mixture into a frying-pan with butter, and cook until the butter is absorbed. Pour in a little stock, boil until it is nearly evaporated, then remove the pan from the fire. Well butter five of the Crab shells, and fill them with tbe mixture. Grind down the coral, mix it up with breadcrumbs

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