Deviled Crabs

Ingredients

• two tablespoonfuls of flour
• two tablespoonfuls of melted butter
• two-thirds of a cup of white stock
• the yolks of two eggs
• two tablespoonfuls of sherry
• one-fourth cup finely chopped mushrooms
• a cup of chopped crab meat
• a teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley

Method

1. 1

   Make a sauce with flour, butter, and stock.

2. 2

   Stir in egg yolks, sherry, mushrooms, and crab meat.

3. 3

   Cook for three minutes, cool, fill crab shells, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and bake until golden.

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Two tablespoonfuls of flour was braided into two tablespoonfuls of melted butter and two-thirds of a cup of white stock was added to make a sauce, into which was stirred smoothly the yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sherry, salt and pepper, one-fourth cup finely chopped mushrooms, and a cup of chopped crab meat. After cooking this three minutes, a teaspoonful of finely chopped parsley

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