Stuffed Crabs or Lobster

Ingredients

• Boil crabs and pick out meat
• add to meat one-fourth as much fine bread crumbs
• very little nutmeg
• cayenne pepper
• grated rind and juice of lemon
• butter
• a little sweet cream

Method

1. 1

   Rub the shell with salad oil, add the picked meat with bread crumbs, nutmeg, cayenne pepper, lemon rind and juice, butter, and sweet cream.

2. 2

   Replace in shells, dust lightly with bread crumbs and butter, and brown in the oven.

3. 3

   Garnish with parsley and lemon.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new home cook book (1896), page 37. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

STUFFED CRABS OR LOBSTER. M. A. T. Boil crabs and pick out meat ; carefully preserving the 86 THE HOME COOK BOOK. shell whole ; rub this with salad oil, add to meat one. fourth as much fine bread crumbs, very little nutmeg, cayenne pepper, grated rind and juice of lemon, butter and a little sweet cream

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