Dressed Crab

Ingredients

• 1 cooked crab
• salt, cayenne, and lemon juice
• mayonnaise or cream
• brown bread-crumbs

Method

1. 1

   Take off the claws, break them, and remove the white meat.

2. 2

   Take out the meat from the shell, and remove the bag near the head.

3. 3

   Chop up the creamy meat from the inside with the meat from the claws; season and mix to a soft consistency with mayonnaise or cream.

4. 4

   Wash, dry, and rub the shell with a little salad oil, and fill it with the mixture.

5. 5

   Scatter lightly with brown bread-crumbs, decorate with lobster or green butter, and garnish with the claws.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for high-class cookery (1912) by Edinburgh School of Cookery, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

DRESSED CRAB. 1 cooked crab. Take off the claws, break them, and remove the white meat. Take out the meat from the shell, and remove the bag near the head. Chop up the creamy meat from the inside with the meat from the claws ; season with salt, cayenne, and lemon juice, and mix to a soft consistency with mayonnaise or cream. [ 39 ] Wash, dry, and rub the shell with a little salad oil, and fill it with the mixture. Scatter lightly with brown bread-crumbs

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