Boiled Crabs
Ingredients
Directions
Boil the crabs in salted water for about 25 minutes.
Remove the crabs and break off the claws.
Clean the crabs thoroughly.
Discard the small claws; crack the large ones and serve.
Brush a little sweet oil on the shells for color.
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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