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To Boil Crayfish

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Boil Crayfish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a pot with water and add coarse sea salt, similar to how you would for lobsters.

  2. Bring the water to a boil.

  3. Add the crayfish and boil for 15 minutes.

  4. Remove the crayfish from the pot and drain them well.

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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