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Time: 1 hour

Sufficient for 3 persons
Ingredients
  1. 1 crab
  2. nutmeg
  3. salt to taste
  4. pepper to taste
  5. 3 oz. of butter
  6. 1/4 lb. of bread crumbs
  7. 3 tablespoonfuls of vinegar
Directions
  • Boil the crab until done
  • Pick the meat out from the shells, and mix with it the nutmeg and seasoning
  • Cut up the butter in small pieces, and add the bread crumbs and vinegar
  • Mix altogether, put the whole in the large shell, and brown before the fire or with a salamander
    • Source: The Book of Household Management by Isabella Beeton (1859)
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