Hot Crab, or Lobster

Name: Hot Crab, or Lobster
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: chili vinegar; flour; fish; butter; nutmeg; cayenne; scallop-shells; crab; lobster; bread-crumbs; meat jelly; forks

In season during the same time as Lobsters

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Cookery for Private Families

By Eliza Acton

Published 1845

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Method

Slice quite small, or pull into light flakes with a couple of forks, the flesh of either fish; put it into a saucepan with a few bits of good butte