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Categories: Seafood - Crab - Stovetop - Fried
From: Carrie, 1930, served in a bar on Friday nights
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Ingredients

Ingredient Amount Notes
Crab Meat 1 lb. carefully picked free of all shell
Butter ¼ lb.  
Flour 3 Tbsp.  
Milk 2 cups  
Nutmeg 1 dash  
Red Pepper 1 dash  
Parsley 1 dash chopped fine
Salt to taste  
Bread Crumbs    
Crisco   all-vegetable shortening

Method

  1. Cook butter, flour, and milk in a pot until very thick, stirring constantly.
  2. Add nutmeg, pepper, parsley, and salt.
  3. Stir in crab last.
  4. Cool.
  5. Take mixture by tablespoonfuls and drop into bread crumbs.
  6. Mold into 15 cakes.
  7. Allow to set several hours in refrigerator.
  8. Fry in Crisco oil without further dipping in crumbs.

Notes From Gran

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