Fried Soft-Shell Crabs
From The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf, 1896
Serve immediately.
Presented as published in 1896. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from The Cook Book, by "Oscar" of the Waldorf (1896) by Oscar Tschirky, page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Fried Soft-Shell Crabs. Have a dish of cracker dust mixed with a little pepper and on the stove a pan half full of smoking hot fat; beat two eggs
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