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Boiled Crabs

A dish of crabs boiled in salted water and finished with sweet oil.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Boiled Crabs

Ingredients

Directions

Boil

  1. Boil the crabs in salted water for about 25 minutes.

  2. Remove the crabs and break off the claws.

Clean and finish

  1. Clean the crabs thoroughly.

  2. Discard the small claws and crack the large ones.

  3. Rub 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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What each ingredient does

Sweet oil
Rubbed on the shells to give them a glossy, appealing color.

“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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