Deviled Crab

Ingredients

• One crab
• two hard boiled eggs chopped fine
• two (2) tablespoons cracker crumbs rolled very fine
• juice of one lemon
• two tablespoons sherry
• spoonful mustard
• mace
• Butter size of an egg
• flour to thicken
• thin with milk

Method

1. 1

   Mix crab with chopped eggs, cracker crumbs, lemon juice, sherry, red pepper, and salt.

2. 2

   Butter a dish, thicken with flour, cook, then thin with milk.

3. 3

   Spoon mixture into the dish, cover with cracker crumbs and bits of butter.

4. 4

   Heat in oven until brown.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Choice recipes (1900), page 5. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DEVILED CRAB-Mrs. A. L. House One crab, two hard boiled eggs chopped fine, two (2) table- spoons cracker crumbs rolled very fine, juice of one lemon, two tablespoons sherry, red pepper, salt ; mix well. Butter size of an egg ; flour to thicken. Cook, then thin with milk and season with salt, spoonful mustard and mace

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