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Devilled Crabs

A historic early American dish of crab meat, mushrooms, butter, flour and white stock. Adapted from Devilled Crabs, from The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896).

Adapted from Devilled Crabs, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's Ye Old American Recipe Book collection and marked public domain. The method is condensed from the original and the quantities are restated in modern units; see the archive record at https://github.com/AdamBouhmad/open-recipe-archive/blob/main/collections/ye-old-american/recipes/devilled-crabs.md.

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Make a sauce of butter, flour, and stock

  2. Add yolks of eggs, seasonings (except parsley), crab meat, and mushrooms

  3. Cook three minutes, add parsley, and cool mixture

  4. Wash and trim crab shells, fill rounding with mixture, sprinkle with stale bread crumbs mixed with a small quantity of melted butter

  5. Crease on top with a case knife, having three lines parallel with each other across shell and three short lines branching from outside parallel lines

  6. Bake until crumbs are brown

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book (1896; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)