Fried Hard Crabs

Ingredients

• Clean hard crabs
• salt
• flour
• hot oil

Method

1. 1

   Clean hard crabs, remove claws and crack with a hammer, cut body in half.

2. 2

   Rinse and place in colander, salt and flour.

3. 3

   Cook quickly in a heavy skillet in hot oil.

4. 4

   Place crabs in skillet so that the edge where the body was cut will be standing in oil.

5. 5

   Brown.

6. 6

   Turn crabs flat and fry on both sides.

7. 7

   Fry claws until brown and crispy.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Seafood cookery from Carteret County kitchens (1900) by N.C.) Home Demonstration Clubs (Carteret County, page 3. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FRIED HARD CRABS Clean hard crabs, remove claws and crack with a hammer, cut body in half. Rinse and place in colander, salt and flour. Cook quickly in a heavy skillet in hot oil

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