Devilled Crabs

Ingredients

• Twelve crabs
• Half pint of milk
• Two tablespoonfuls (1oz) of flour
• One tablespoonful (0.5oz) of butter
• Salt
• Cayenne pepper
• One tablespoonful (0.5oz) of chopped parsley
• Milk
• Three hard boiled eggs
• Bread crumbs
• Egg whites

Directions

1. Put milk on to boil
2. Rub the butter and flour together
3. Add the milk
4. Stir and cook two minutes
5. Take from the fire
6. Add crab meat
7. Add the yolks of three hard boiled eggs mashed fine
8. Then parsley, salt and pepper
9. Fill the shells
10. Brush over with the white of an egg
11. Cover with bread crumbs
12. Put in a quick oven (375-400° F) or cook in a frying basket

Source — Cooking in Old Creole Days.

Prepared by Paul W. Haire

Louisiana Anthology

July 19,2017