A Nice Way to Serve Crabs

Ingredients:

• One dozen crabs
• One pound of bread crumbs
• Two tablespoons of butter
• One full teaspoon of salt
• Half teaspoon of black pepper
• Slice of onion, chopped very fine
• Half tablespoon of chopped parsley
• Pinch of thyme
• One egg

Directions:

1. Boil the crabs for five minutes.
2. Pick and chop them, adding all other ingredients, and shape in forms of mutton chops, roll in the beaten egg and stick in claw.
3. In a frying pan, add three tablespoons of lard.
4. When boiling, put in the crabs to brown (should take about three minutes).
5. Serve in a round dish with claws in the center.

Source — The Creole Cookery Book

Prepared by Kyle Rachal

Louisiana Anthology

January 8, 2019