To dress a Crab

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (8)

the meat ↝ Imitation crab meat [Fish]
half a pint of white wine ↝ Wine, white [Wine]
a little nutmeg ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]
pepper ↝ Spices, pepper, black [Spices and Herbs]
salt ↝ Salt, table, iodized [Spices and Herbs]
a few crumbs of bread ↝ Bread, crumbs, dry, grated, seasoned [Baked Products]
one yolk of an egg ↝ Egg, yolk only, raw [Eggs and omelets]
one spoonful of vinegar ↝ Vinegar [Mustard and other condiments]

Instructions (8)

Take out the crab meat and cleanse it from the skin.
Put the crab meat into a stew-pan with white wine, nutmeg, pepper, and salt.
Cook over a slow fire.
Throw in a few crumbs of bread.
Beat up one yolk of an egg with one spoonful of vinegar.
Add the beaten egg yolk and vinegar mixture to the stew-pan.
Shake the sauce-pan round for a minute.
Serve it up on a plate.

Original Text

To dress a Crab.
HAVING taken out the meat, and cleansed it from the skin, put
it into a stew-pan, with half a pint of white wine, a little nutmeg,
pepper and salt, over a slow fire. Throw in a few crumbs of
bread, beat up one yolk of an egg with one spoonful of vinegar,
throw it in, then shake the sauce-pan round a minute, and serve it
up on a plate.

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