Partan Pie

Ingredients

• Pick the meat out of a boiled Crab
• mix the meat with a little salt and pepper
• a pat of butter
• If too liquid, add breadcrumbs

Method

1. 1

   Pick the meat out of a boiled Crab, clean out the shell, and mix the meat with a little salt and pepper and a pat of butter.

2. 2

   If too liquid, add breadcrumbs.

3. 3

   Put all back into the shell, strew breadcrumbs over, brown before the fire in a Dutch oven, or bake for a few minutes in the oven.

4. 4

   Dust with cayenne, and serve hot.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Mrs. Roundell's Practical cookery book (1898) by Roundell, Charles Mrs, page 73. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Partan Pie. — This is a Scotch dish, Partan being the name for a Crab on the east coast of Scotland. Pick the meat out of a boiled Crab, clean out the shell, and mix the meat with a little salt and pepper and a pat of butter. If too PARTAN PIE IT5 liquid, add breadcrumbs

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