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To Boil Crabs or Lobsters

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Boil Crabs or Lobsters

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the crabs or lobsters well and tie their claws.

  2. Put them in boiling water with salt.

  3. Boil for 20 to 30 minutes, depending on their size.

  4. Rub them with ghee or butter.

  5. Lay them on their claws until they cool.

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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The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Crab + gheetop 46% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together4 recipes

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