Deviled Crabs

Ingredients

• 1 dozen boiled, hard crabs
• the yolks of 3 hard boiled eggs
• 1 oz. of butter
• 1 tablespoon of dry mustard
• 1 teaspoonful of salt
• a dash of cayenne pepper
• 2 tablespoonsful of flour
• 1 pt. cream or milk

Method

1. 1

   Pick crab meat, mix with egg yolks, butter, mustard, salt, cayenne, and flour.

2. 2

   Add cream, cook to custard consistency, mix with crab, fill shells, and bake.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Aunts' Cook Book (1922) by [name missing], page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Deviled Crabs Carefully pick the meat from 1 dozen boiled, hard crabs, scrub the shells thoroughly. Place in a pot the yolks of 3 hard boiled eggs, 1 oz. of butter, 1 tablespoon of dry mustard, 1 teaspoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper, 2 tablespoonsful of flour, rub smooth with a wooden spoon, then place over fire; Fish Foods 31 add 1 pt. cream or milk

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