Deviled Crabs

Ingredients

• One dozen fresh hard-shell crabs
• a quarter of a pound of fresh butter
• one small teaspoon of mustard powder
• cayenne pepper to taste
• salt to taste
• an equal quantity of fine bread-crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Pick meat from crabs, mix with butter, mustard, and bread-crumbs.

2. 2

   Fill crab shells with mixture, sprinkle with crumbs, add butter, and brown in a hot oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Home dissertations (1891) by Tilton, E. Stevens Mrs., page 81. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DEVILED CRABS. One dozen fresh hard-shell crabs boiled, pick out the meat from the shells; a quarter of a pound of fresh butter; one small teaspoon of mustard powder; cayenne pepper and salt to taste. Put the meat into a bowl and mix carefully with it an equal quantity of fine bread- crumb

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