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To Boil Crayfish

A simple method of boiling crayfish in salted water.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Crayfish

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Fill a pot with water and add coarse sea salt as 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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What each ingredient does

Crayfish
The main ingredient, cooked whole in boiling salted water until its flesh turns firm and opaque.

“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.

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