Devilled Crab in Shell

Ingredients

• 3 cans crab
• a cupful of rich butter sauce
• a tablespoonful of melted butter
• some pepper
• some very fine minced bread crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Opened the 3 cans.

2. 2

   Mixed the crab meat with butter sauce and pepper.

3. 3

   Buttered the insides of the shells, filled them, topped with bread crumbs, and baked until golden brown, basting with melted butter.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 132. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Devilled Crab in Shell. Sardines with Brown Bread. Garnished Pickles. Corned Tongue. Shrimps in Mayonaise. French Rolls and Butter Bread, Swiss Cheese. "Maids of Honor" Tartlets. Strawberries and Cream. Cake. Coffee. Wine, extra. Cigars, extra. Of course there was no menu card; a long table was set suitable^ for farewell speech-making and those things were set on it ; and, the waiters out of pure good will went out in the twilight and despoiled somebody's garden of large bunches of lilac and snowballs for decoration. Cost of material : 3 cans crab @ 33^ $i 00 3 cans shrimps @ 30 90 6 small cans sardmes @ 20 i 20 6 heads lettuce 15 I pint salad oil ^ ^ 50 6 Imons for dressin g and garnish 15 ^ a coW corned tongue ^ 15 I bunch red radishes for garnish 5 9 eggs for salad dressing 15 6 quarts strawberries @ 15 90 1 quart cream 25 24 tartlets 25 Rolls, bread, butter ^ 26 Cheese, pickles, condiments 25 2 pounds of cake 25 20 cups coffee (^ H) Java) 18 2 pounds sugar 16 $675 501— A Dish cf Devilled Crabs. Opened the 3 cans. They proved to De solid packed and good, only a little too salty. It is the common way, to mix fine bread crumbs with the crab meat, but there being rather more than enough of this, the only addition made was a cupful of rich butter sauce made with melted butter, to avoid adding the salt dregs, and some pepper. Buttered the insides of the shells; filled 20 of them, rounded up, and on top pressed some very fine minced bread crumbs; baked to a toast-brown in the oven and basted with a table-spoonful of melted butte

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