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Devilled Crabs

A historic Canadian dish of crab meat (8-10 crabs), milk, butter, flour and paprika. Adapted from Devilled Crabs, from Canadian Farm Cook Book (1911).

Adapted from Devilled Crabs, in Canadian Farm Cook Book (1911), preserved in the Open Recipe Archive's The Canadian Kitchen 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/canadian-kitchen/recipes/devilled-crabs-2.md.

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Devilled Crabs

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Cooking Instructions

  1. Make white sauce, add seasoning, meat and yolk of egg

  2. Cook to thicken

  3. Cool slightly, put into shells

  4. Cover with buttered crumbs and brown in oven

Adapted from Open Recipe Archive · Canadian Farm Cook Book (1911; archive record marked public domain). View a published recipe at Internet Archive (opens in a new tab)