Soft Shell Crabs Fried
Ingredients
Directions
Remove the spongy part and sand bags from the sides of the crabs.
Wash, wipe, and dry the crabs.
Heat deep frying fat until hot.
Fry the crabs in the hot fat for five minutes.
Remove the crabs with a skimmer, sprinkle with coarse sea salt, and serve very hot.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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