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Dressed Crab

Cooked crab meat is picked from the shell, chopped finely, and seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Dressed Crab

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Open the crab and remove the small stomach bag and uneatable parts.

  2. Pick out the white meat from the body.

  3. Chop the white meat finely.

Season

  1. Season with salt to taste.

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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What each ingredient does

Cooked crab
Provides the main body of the dish, supplying all the meat that is picked, chopped and seasoned.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.