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Hard Crabs

Hard crabs are cooked by plunging them into boiling salted water for at least 30 minutes.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Hard Crabs

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Buy live hard crabs.

  2. Plunge them head downward into boiling water to kill them.

  3. Cook in salted boiling water for at least 30 minutes.

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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