Stuffed Crabs à la Créole

Ingredients

1 hard-shell crab

1/2 cup chopped white onion

2 tablespoons minced ham

1/4 cup bread crumbs

1 teaspoon bread crumbs (powdered)

2 tablespoons butter or oil

2 tablespoons suet

2 tablespoons red pepper

1 egg yolk

Directions

1. Boil the crab.
2. Remove the shell, keep for later.
3. Take out the sand bag and spongy substances.
4. Take out meat and fat carefully.
5. In a bowl, chop up and combine the crab meat, fat, onions, ham, bread crumbs, butter or oil, suet, and red pepper.
6. Bind the mixture with an egg yolk.
7. Fry in a low heat pan until browned.
8. Preheat oven onto low heat.
9. Clean the upper shell of the crab.
10. Stuff the crab with the crab stuffing.
11. Sprinkle crab with powdered bread crumbs.
12. Put a small lump of butter onto the top of the shell.
13. Put crab into oven to melt butter, then serve.

Source — The Unrivaled Cook-Book.
Prepared by Brennan Marse
Louisiana Anthology
December 17, 2023